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Shielding MAC addresses from stalkers is hard and Android fails miserably at it

Only an estimated 6% of Android phones randomize MACs, and they do it poorly.

 

                                 

 

Dan Goodin –

 

In early 2015, architects of Google’s Android mobile operating system introduced a new feature that was intended to curtail the real-time tracking of smartphones as their users traversed retail stores, city streets, and just about anywhere else. A recently published research paper found that the measure remains missing on the vast majority of Android phones and is easily defeated on the relatively small number of devices that do support it.

 

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