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Re: [Madinas] MAC address stickers on devices

Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> Fri, 14 May 2021 01:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Madinas] MAC address stickers on devices
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Tim Cappalli <Tim.Cappalli@microsoft.com> wrote:
    > I have never come across an IoT/headless device that does MAC
    > randomization.

Yet.

Almost all digital signage (which is ironically, often not headless, but it is IoT)
is based upon a current Windows or Linux distribution, and they rarely
change many settings, so if the default is MAC randomization, in two years,
they will all be randomized.

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