XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: unet.lighthouse@xoxy.net   
      
   So it is writ by Alice J. ,   
   so mote it be.   
   > Mike Yetto wrote in message   
   > slrn20160130232159.855.twooffive@may.eternal-september.org:   
      
   >>> Except that your MAC gives you away.   
   >>   
   >> The BSSID is a unique label, not security, for the access point   
   >> of the network.   
      
   > Yes. You are correct.   
   > But my point was that the MAC *is* unique darnit.   
   > That's bad for privacy to have a unique number.   
      
   It is necessary for operations that it be unique within its own   
   ken. Since that extends to about 100 meter sat best anyone   
   wishing to take advantage of that uniqueness will need to be   
   close.   
      
   > I'd much prefer Jeff's suggestion of changing it, but he explained   
   > that it's not as easy as just cloning the WAN MAC address is.   
      
   > Sigh.   
      
   > Changing the SSID monthly is looking better and better.   
      
   Why? Don't you have to change all of the devices that would   
   connect to this access point? I would never consider changing   
   something used over dozen devices on a regular basis. Not to   
   mention how annoyed my elder son, his wife, my younger son, his   
   girlfriend, and my wife would be every time I told them to change   
   their devices. This doesn't even consider any other relatives who   
   may have accessed it and still have the connection defined on a   
   phone, tablet, or laptop.   
      
   Mike "yes I am free with my home network" Yetto   
   --   
   "One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on   
   the contrary by using one`s intelligence."   
    - George Orwell   
      
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