Very interesting… It seems that Dell, HP, and IBM may be the only ones who have implemented this so far; and, at least with Dell, you have to use Dell dongles with a Dell computer for it to work.
I don’t see Apple implementing this, as they are pushing randomized MAC addresses from a privacy perspective. The idea is that a device’s MAC address can be followed across networks, thereby allowing tracking of an individual associated with the device. (Apparently Edward Snowden identified this as something the NSA does.) MAC address randomization prevents this (at least to a degree - lots of interesting information around this).
I’m thinking I’m just going to have to label the dongles, use the same ones for the same computers at home, and rotate them when traveling to simulate randomization, lol!
Very interesting… It seems that Dell, HP, and IBM may be the only ones who have implemented this so far; and, at least with Dell, you have to use Dell dongles with a Dell computer for it to work.
I don’t see Apple implementing this, as they are pushing randomized MAC addresses from a privacy perspective. The idea is that a device’s MAC address can be followed across networks, thereby allowing tracking of an individual associated with the device. (Apparently Edward Snowden identified this as something the NSA does.) MAC address randomization prevents this (at least to a degree - lots of interesting information around this).
I’m thinking I’m just going to have to label the dongles, use the same ones for the same computers at home, and rotate them when traveling to simulate randomization, lol!