MAC addresses and privacy...

I was actually quite disturbed when I entered the mac address of my *laptop* on this page:

http://www.samy.pl/mapxss/

and it got my location to within one house (i.e. it attributed it to the house next door).

This means anyone sniffing my mac address when I am traveling will have a pretty good idea of where I am from.  My iPhone's MAC address did not trace....

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Monday, 4 October 2010 18:09:21 UTC