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   Hank Rogers to Marian   
   Re: How to test if your access point BSS   
   29 Dec 25 18:45:38   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: Hank@nospam.invalid   
      
   Marian wrote on 12/29/2025 4:04 PM:   
   > Tyrone wrote:   
   >> it makes Apple "look bad".   
   >   
   > What Apple does is what "makes Apple look bad", not me.   
   >   
   > What's important is that Apple's WPS database implementation is   
   > insecure. That's not opinion. That's fact which was described in the   
   > research.   
   >   
   > Google's WPS database access is nothing like Apple's WPS database access.   
   > Anyone in the world can access Apple's entire WPS db without restriction.   
   >   
   > All I did was reproduce what the researchers said was easily possible.   
   > And it was.   
   >   
   > What the researchers didn't note, and which I learned, and I'm likely only   
   > one out of millions who knows this, was not only does Apple not respect   
   > their own published privacy policy on opting out, but they have no   
   > intention of respecting their published privacy opt-out policy.   
   >   
   > This is not opinion.   
   > This is fact.   
   >   
   > Only one out of millions of people know what I just said above.   
      
   Thank goodness!  If only a few people and yourself know this, the rest   
   of us likely have some time left.   
      
   > We know it because we're extremely intelligent and well informed.   
   >   
      
   Your superior intellect is well known Marion.  But who are the others in   
   the "We"?   
      
   I'm sure everyone would like to thank this genius cadre for their efforts.   
      
   No, on second thought perhaps not.  I'm sure all these people are   
   cloaked in secrecy, and we should do nothing to blow their cover.   
      
      
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