Even more reason for randomizing your phone's MAC address: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/you-are-a-rogue-device/Content?oid=18143845
You Are a Rogue Device -- A New Apparatus Capable of Spying on You Has Been Installed Throughout Downtown Seattle. Very Few Citizens Know What It Is, and Officials Don’t Want to Talk About It. by Matt Fikse-Verkerk and Brendan Kiley If you're walking around downtown Seattle, look up: You'll see off-white boxes, each one about a foot tall with vertical antennae, attached to utility poles. If you're walking around downtown while looking at a smartphone, you will probably see at least one—and more likely two or three—Wi-Fi networks named after intersections: "4th&Seneca," "4th&Union," "4th&University," and so on. That is how you can see the Seattle Police Department's new wireless mesh network, bought from a California-based company called Aruba Networks, whose clients include the Department of Defense, school districts in Canada, oil-mining interests in China, and telecommunications companies in Saudi Arabia. The question is: How well can this mesh network see you? How accurately can it geo-locate and track the movements of your phone, laptop, or any other wireless device by its MAC address (its "media access control address"—nothing to do with Macintosh—which is analogous to a device's thumbprint)? Can the network send that information to a database, allowing the SPD to reconstruct who was where at any given time, on any given day, without a warrant? Can the network see you now? ... On 10/30/2013 06:17 PM, Timur Mehrvarz wrote: > On 27.10.2013 21:46, Julian Oliver wrote: >> ..on Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 03:15:12PM +0100, Timur Mehrvarz wrote: >>> On 24.10.2013 20:48, coderman wrote: >>>> >>>> this is not really the kernel itself, but rather the wifi chipset - a >>>> new kernel on the devices you're having trouble with won't fix this >>>> ioctl. >>>> >>>> unfortunately this problem is getting worse, not better. >>>> >>> >>> Hmm, I see. In this case it would be really good to have a >>> positive/negative list in regard to Wifi chipsets. >> >> Would be good to see a build of 'macchanger' for Android. > > coderman and I have created a wiki page, listing ten devices at the > moment. Of those, five allow the Wifi MAC address to be changed. The > other five do not. > > Please feel free to add more devices: > > http://www.openwiki.com/ow.asp?Changing+MAC+addresses+on+mobile+devices > -- http://disman.tl OpenPGP key: http://disman.tl/pgp.asc Fingerprint: 2480 095D 4B16 436F 35AB 7305 F670 74ED BD86 43A9 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
