Re: wireless geolocation

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On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 10:18:33AM -0500, David Farmer wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Nico Williams <nico@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 09:23:13AM +0200, Christian Huitema wrote:
> > > Another argument for MAC Address randomization...
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Though that's likely to lead geoloc providers to use other methods over
> > which we'd have even less control.  But still, MAC address randomization
> > is a good thing all around.
> 
> How would Client MAC address randomization help this situation? I not aware
> of APs implementing MAC address (BSSID) randomization.

Neither Christian nor I said "client".  We're arguing that all MAC
addresses should be randomized.  As for BSSIDs, I'm not sure randomizing
them on boot is a good idea, but certainly on install/reset.

Nico
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