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2020-11 Advisory: Implications of MAC address randomisation on eduroam(UK) members

Stefan Paetow

Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 01:45

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Introduction With the introduction of iOS 14 and Android 11, MAC address randomisation will become more prevalent and will have some implications for our eduroam(UK) members. History Starting with iOS 8 and Android 8 mobile device operating system vendors started using randomised MAC addresses while scanning for wireless networks. These pre-association MAC addresses were random at every sweep. This was a step towards ensuring user devices could scan for wireless networks without being tracked.

Advisory: Implications of MAC address randomisation on eduroam(UK) members

Stefan Paetow

31 March 2021 at 2:37am

Calling-Station-Identity

This article has moved to: https://community.jisc.ac.uk/library/network-and-technology-service-docs/2020-11-advisory-implications-mac-address-randomisation

11 July 2019 at 10:22am

Rebuilding trust in the Internet's building blocks

Merike Kaeo's keynote "Waking Up the Guards" at the FIRST 2019 conference (recording now available on YouTube) highlighted how attacks on the internet core no longer target a single service (naming, routing, signing) but move between these to achieve their hostile result.