this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
689 points (97.6% liked)

Memes

45727 readers
1499 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'll probably forget to check when I get home. Does anyone know if Android randomizes the MAC address on every disconnect/connect with the random MAC option enabled?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] grasib 10 points 1 year ago

Not by default. It remembers the MAC for each specific network. This is because sometimes you want to have specific device on the same IP all the time. The DHCP decides this via the MAC.

If you want it truly randomised every time you need to turn on non persistent MAC randomisation in the developer option.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen that on LineageOS 18 (based on Android 11)

[–] LunaCtld 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GrapheneOS does this by default as well.

[–] KpntAutismus 1 points 1 year ago

my Fairphone 4's android 12 does this too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

it does for me, I'm on project elixir