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tastroder on Jan 17, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Count the people around you by monitoring wifi sig...

Not really, they simply only randomise for scanning / management frames when not connected to an AP.

The downside is that many people have rather unique sets of SSIDs that still allow for pretty good tracking markers.

wstuartcl on Jan 17, 2019 [–]

They do retain the mac for scanning networks that they have previously connected to AFAIK. This is what allows the correlation of mac approved (ie paid or bound mac networks).

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