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libremesh / pirania

Captive portal that will allow the communities to manage access to their Internet Gateways as they want.
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MAC Randomization #58

Open nicopace opened 5 years ago

nicopace commented 5 years ago

Oi Luandro, have been thinking about Pirania and heard about something that we need to be aware of: MAC randomization. It looks like in order for devices not to be tracked in corporate wifi environments (like Google's city wifi, or facebook's, or other corporations or state owned wifi hotspot networks), what devices started doing is doing MAC randomization, meaning that each time they connect to a new wifi network they will use a different MAC address. We need to see how this would affect Pirania... I have seen that what some do is to have a separate wifi password per device... like an open wifi that gets captured by the hotspot, and a closed wifi that requires unique wifi passwords per device. this is the article about MAC randomization: https://source.android.com/devices/tech/connect/wifi-mac-randomization An implementation of that strategy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=118&v=CxFx9PbkP8A&feature=emb_title

G10h4ck commented 5 years ago

AFAIK recent Network Manager versions do it by default

luandro commented 5 years ago

We've had a girl in Moinho who seemed to have that, not by option but as a bug in her hardware. I never thought there would be a way to deal with that. I like the idea of having a password protected wifi for such cases.