How Using A Private Network Address On iPhone Works (And Why You Should)

Looking to use a private network on your iPhone? There's a variety of reasons you might want to use one, and it's easier than ...
AppleInsider

Apple's private Wi-Fi MAC addresses were security theater until iOS 17.1

Apple introduced a feature that would hide a user's permanent MAC address in 2020, but it's been virtually useless until iOS 17.1 thanks to a now patched vulnerability. When a device connects to a ...
Android Authority

Apple made a false privacy claim for three years and everyone believed it

iOS 14 introduced a “private Wi-Fi address” feature that claimed to hide your MAC address and share a different identifier when you connect to Wi-Fi. However, security researchers discovered that the ...
Brandeis University

Media Access Control (MAC) Address

A Media Access Control (MAC) address, sometimes referred to as a hardware or physical address, is a unique, 12-character alphanumeric attribute that is used to identify individual electronic devices ...
Macworld

iOS 17.1 finally fixes a three-year-old Private Wi-Fi Address security hole

Here’s another reason you should update to iOS 17.1: the Private Address feature actually works now. Introduced in iOS 14, Private Address (also called Private Wi-Fi Address) was supposed to provide ...
Network World

Getting a MAC address from a Web browser

Can you get a Web browser’s media access control (MAC) address from a Web server? It would probably be impractical to send an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request. Can you get a Web browser’s ...