In some cases, they might be looking for unsecure devices… but really I think the main use case for LG is to identify the devices. They are more interested in knowing what and whose products you have. And maybe also to what degree they identify individual people by the unique characteristics.
Your phone, for example, would communicate its response to this scan using a unique physical ID (MAC address), and that ID would stay consistent regardless of what wifi network you were on. So you see how that’s useful to fucking Palantir or whoever wants it.
Where have you been? The default for phones now is create a random MAC address every time it connects to a WiFi network. So no it well not allow tracking over networks or even on the same network. This is the default on iOS and Android, and people do not change from the default.
Except they’re scanning for unsecure ones and piggybacking through HDMI cables.
The only secure way is to not have them at all
In some cases, they might be looking for unsecure devices… but really I think the main use case for LG is to identify the devices. They are more interested in knowing what and whose products you have. And maybe also to what degree they identify individual people by the unique characteristics.
Your phone, for example, would communicate its response to this scan using a unique physical ID (MAC address), and that ID would stay consistent regardless of what wifi network you were on. So you see how that’s useful to fucking Palantir or whoever wants it.
Where have you been? The default for phones now is create a random MAC address every time it connects to a WiFi network. So no it well not allow tracking over networks or even on the same network. This is the default on iOS and Android, and people do not change from the default.
Well thanks for tip, i guess? I do see the setting in iOS.
How does it piggy back over HDMI cables? Yes there was a spec for ethernet over HDMI but nothing used it. The hardware has to be there for it to work.