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Apple WWDC Privacy & Security Updates! - SR91

Surveillance Report

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Wifi Probing Exposes Smart Phone Users to Tracking and Infoleks

Researchers at the university of hamburg and germany have conducted a field experiment capturing hundreds of thousands of passerbys wyfe connection probe requests. In 23 point two % of the cases, they found that the requests broadcast s s idees of networks those devices ted to in the past. The moral of the story here is turn off your wifee and your blue tooth when you're not actively using them. Every successive version of both i o s and android offers more and more protections against this kind of thing. So make sure you're using the latest o s for the best protection.

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