alt Hacker NewsThey used to recommend using the MAC address. This was ok 30 years ago when a computer sat in an office on a desk but it makes it very easy to fingerprint a moving computer as it moves across different networks.
Using a random address (Privacy Extensions) solves this problem though, but do we expect everyone to know what that is and check it's enabled? Mine wasn't enabled by default (on Linux) and I only noticed when a bittorrent site warned me.
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frantathefranta • yesterday at 2:44 PM
Could you publicly shame the distro that had that issue? Pretty sure it should be the default (on NixOS at least it is).
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As mentioned by GP, Apple enables privacy extensions on all their OSes:
* https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/security/seccb625dcd9/...
As does Windows (since Vista), and Android (8+).
So why are we still talking about this?