It's probably just so they can sell more iBeacons:
http://time.com/money/3432693/macys-shopkick-ibeacon/
Pete Morrissey
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From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Julian Y Koh
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 4:30 PM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] iOS8 and randomized mac addresses
On Mon Jun 09 2014 10:06:27 CDT, Rick Coloccia, Jr. coloc...@geneseo.edu
wrote:
Just saw this:
http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/9/5792970/ios-8-strikes-an-unexpected-b
low-against-location-tracking
Here's more detail. Apparently you need to have cellular data and location
services turned off for random MAC addresses to be used.
http://www.powerpage.org/ios-8s-mac-randomization-requires-cellular-data-location-services-to-be-disabled/
http://blog.airtightnetworks.com/ios8-mac-randomization-analyzed/
http://blog.airtightnetworks.com/ios8-mac-randomgate/
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