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Randomized MAC Addresses, System Impacts and Implications
Cost: No Charge. Registration is required.
SPEAKER: Baw Chng
Ever since the nascent days of computer networking, system interface identifier and interface address assignment schemes have always been key considerations for any networking protocol and system architecture design.
Core to the IEEE 802 family of networking standards is the "MAC address" that is widely used as an interface identifier and as a networking address for such popular technologies as Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and Bluetooth.
Being an "address" means it needs to maintain certain properties (e.g., some level of "uniqueness" and "permanence") to be usable for data delivery. Being an "identifier" means it may be exploited in ways that weaken consumer privacy (e.g., Internet activity and real-life geographic tracking) -- especially when that type of "identifier" is ubiquitous among consumer products.
As part of the recent trend to strengthen consumer privacy protection, major consumer technology suppliers have more aggressively employed a tactic that randomizes the MAC address for Wi-Fi (e.g., Apple with iOS, Google with Android), pushing MAC address randomization into the mainstream.
This presentation looks at issues that might arise from randomizing MAC addresses on a massive scale, analyzes how likely it is for such issues to arise, talks about what these mean to the various systems that rely on "MAC addresses" to provide networking services, discusses potential mitigation measures, and touches on secondary effects that may come with such measures.
PDH certificates are available and an evaluation form will be emailed to you after the meeting. PDH certificate are sent by IEEE USA 3-4 weeks after the meeting.
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