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What’s the deal with iOS8 and MAC Address Randomization?

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iOS8 Blog SeriesAbout the Author:

Bhupinder Misra is a Wi-Fi, Networking, Security, Troubleshooting Pro and Principal Systems Engineer @AirTight

Investigation into the workings of randomized MACs addresses.

Discover how they work in iOS8 on iPhone 5 and 5s.

iPhone 6 testing is coming soon.

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At WWDC#14 (June 2014) Apple announced that the Wi-Fi scanning behavior of their devices would change starting with iOS8.

They would start using randomized and locally administrated MAC addresses in the probing state.

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The touted rationale was that such an approach would hide the real MAC addresses of the device and make Wi-Fi device MAC based analytics difficult.

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Apple made iOS8 generally available as part of their September 2014 launch.

It was time for me to take out the packet sniffing gear and dig into the workings of randomized MAC addresses.

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Read the first blogblog.airtightnetworks.com is mobile responsive.

by Ashkan Soltani and Hayley Tsukayama

iOS 8's location-tracking protections aren't as powerful as predicted http://theverge.com/e/6613332 via @verge #iOS8

Who turns OFF location services AND turns OFF cellular data connection while using their iPhone?

Read the second blogblog.airtightnetworks.com is mobile responsive.

iOS 8’s location-tracking protections aren’t as powerful as predicted | by Russell Brandom@russellbrandom via The Vergehttp://www.theverge.com/2014/9/26/6849291/ios-8s-location-tracking-protections-arent-as-powerful-as-predicted

iPhone 6 Tested (blog 3) coming soon.This slideshare will be updated.

Read part I of this blog series: iOS8 MAC Randomization – Analyzed!

Read part II of this blog series: iOS8 MAC Address Randomization Update

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