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iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise — “From the get-go, this feature was useless,” researcher says of feature put into iOS 14 (arstechnica.com)
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iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise — “From the get-go, this feature was useless,” researcher says of feature put into iOS 14::“From the get-go, this feature was useless,” researcher says of feature put into iOS 14.

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[–] Confuserated@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (9 children)

tl;dr It was a bug. It is fixed in 17.1.

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (7 children)

this is whitewashing Apple. It was introduced in iOS 14. A trillion dollar company like apple should have had this fixed long before.

[–] ink@r.nf 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

apple should have had this fixed long before

not if it was intentional. I mean apple bends over for authoritarian governments around the world. This could easily be used as a state surveillance apparatus and casually "fixed" when discovered down the road as a "bug".

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah I agree that it was intentional. I can't believe Apple didn't properly test this feature. But I didn't want to speculate without actual proof

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Why not? Everyone else seems to be doing it, you’re probably just some Portuguese pastrie chef with a bad hair cut and a paid off mortgage

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