[vcf-midatlantic] VCF Flea Market

[David Ryskalczyk]

I strongly suggest reverting this policy regarding MAC privacy. It has become standard across most platforms due to the heavy use of MAC addresses for position/location tracking especially across different locations, and devices will not inform the user that this is why network connectivity is failing.

While MAC addresses are randomized, they are consistent per-device for a period of time — e.g. for iOS devices, as long as the network is not unused for six weeks, but iOS 18 will bring changes to this mechanism.

From a security perspective, it is trivial for someone to spoof a MAC address of a real-looking device; therefore blocking such MAC addresses doesn't particularly help.

David

> On Jun 23, 2024, at 11:03 AM, Martin A. Flynn via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> 
> Same Password as Guest on the main post.  If you have MAC privacy enabled on your mobile device, you will not receive an IP
> 
> On 6/23/2024 10:55 AM, Sentrytv wrote:
>> Nobody told us about it, or gave us the password
>> If it was the same as the VCF standard Wi-Fi in house, then it was not working where I was
>> 
>> Sent from:
>> My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
>> 
>>> On Jun 23, 2024, at 10:44 AM, Martin A. Flynn via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 6/22/2024 8:51 PM, Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>>>> It was nice seeing everyone. I tried not to buy anything but I ended up
>>>> having too as there was some good items.
>>>> 
>>>> I want to thank the team for putting this together. I didn't realize that I
>>>> could have rented a table otherwise I would have and carried more stuff.
>>> Jeff,
>>> 
>>> How did the extended Wi-Fi work in the parking lot?
>>> 
>>> Martin
>>>