iPhones have been exposing MAC addresses despite Apple’s promises otherwise
A few years ago I was trying out mdk3's FakeAP feature.
It had the ability to create thousands of fake APs and crash some devices.
I was playing around with it on a MacBook that didn't have OS X for a few months, as I completely erased it and installed a Linux distro on it.<p>I started toying around with the FakeAP, pretty impressed by the huge list of networks with random names that were now appearing and dissapearing.<p>But then, I was struck with horror. Something must've happened inside the hardware, because the network names were not random anymore. It was still advertising new networks like crazy, but they had the SSIDs of the networks I had connected to in the past. From the work network, to all the coffee places I went to, friend networks, etc.<p>I have my beef with Apple, and the fact that they store the networks you connect to on a chip is just a part of it. There's no good reason (for the users) to do this, and it shows a complete disregard for privacy.