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iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/apple_enthusiast

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

In case anyone hasn’t read the article, the bug that exposed the real MAC address is fixed in 17.1, released today

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I take it that it'll also come as a security update for older versions of iOS like 15?

[–] Nogami 1 points 11 months ago

If you say so.

[–] randomaccount43543 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

https://www.macworld.com/article/2118771/ios-17-1-private-address-security-hole-fix.html

iOS would respond to address requests with a private address as the source, which made it seem like the feature worked. However, the researchers found that the real, actual MAC address was provided in a different part of the request-response

That seems like a really sloppy implementation of the feature 😂 I’m glad they finally fixed it but how did it take three years to fix this!?