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NickNameNick on Sept 8, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: What You Need to Know Abou...

That wouldn't help - Its trivial to configure an access point to advertise a user-selected MAC address, and the MAC address of an AP is broadcast in the clear even on WPA2 encrypted networks.

vengefulduck on Sept 9, 2018 [–]

I think the parent post is referting to a Message Authentication Code not a mac address which an attacker couldn't forge.

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