Hello,
The random mac address feature used in your products poses a security problem in many companies. Please encourage this feature to be removed and other manufacturers to remove this feature as well.
I wish you success in your work.
Regards,
Zafer.
iPhone 14
This is a user-to-user forum. You are not addressing Apple here.
This feature helps users not being tracked through their MAC address across various Wi-Fi networks. That’s all. Not a network security concern by itself. I would argue that neither the device user, nor the network have diminished network security because of this. And I’m happy that it is available to me. Devices would still use a single address for each network (unless more than 6 weeks ago). Re-connecting to a previous network would then use the same old remembered MAC address again.
Other non-Apple devices also have this ability, in some shape or form, so networks will have to deal with this regardless of Apple’s policy.
The feature can be turned off, so it is 100% optional.
Learn more about it here:
Use private Wi-Fi addresses on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch - Apple Support
You’re not doing network access authentication by MAC address, are you? That would be a security concern. It is relatively easy for someone to capture/discover and clone/mask/spoof MAC addresses, which is why they shouldn't be used for security.
Conversely, you want people to have the ability to do whatever they want and not have boundaries or consequences for their choices?
My job is to protect the company, and ultimately the many people that work for it who would suffer if the company were to be attacked and could face unsurmountable financial and reputation loss that causes them to downsize to stay in business if they can at all.
Perhaps the answer is for companies to stop providing WiFi access to devices that are not company owned. For the people that work in one of the call centers in my company, that would mean they have to deal with crappy cellular coverage from a couple of providers, presenting an issue for them to receive calls from family in the event of an emergency.
Randomized MAC Address
