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   Oscar Mayer to Jolly Roger   
   Re: Surveillance Risk: Apple's WiFi-Base   
   30 May 24 13:47:29   
   
   XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.privacy   
   From: nobody@oscarmayer.com   
      
   On 30 May 2024 15:58:22 GMT, Jolly Roger wrote:   
      
   >>>> Are you excusing Apple just because Apple got caught doing it?   
   >>>   
   >>> Every single time you join WiFi you see a list of nearby SSIDs. Are   
   >>> you excusing yourself because you "got caught" doing it? Do you have   
   >>> any idea how ridiculous you sound?   
   >>   
   >> You don't know the difference between a unique BSSID & an SSID, do   
   >> you?   
   >   
   > Sure I do. You don't seem to know that your router's BSSID isn't private   
   > information.   
      
   It's obvious you have no idea what a BSSID is, versus what an SSID is.   
      
   Why do you think only Apple has this problem, which, I'm sure you'll deny,   
   but every single cite on the Internet about it directly blames Apple alone.   
      
   "In this work, we show that Apple's WPS can be abused to create a privacy   
   threat on a global scale." [https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14975]   
      
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