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I'm now considering building a battery powered RasPi device that'll rapidly switch the MAC address on the WiFi adaptor and masquerade as extremely busy periods as I walk through a shopping mall...


> Pry-Fi comes with a War mode, which when enabled tries to make your Android device appear like dozens of people. Just wandering around an area under Wi-Fi location surveillance for a few minutes can ruin the tracking data for the period of your stay.

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>rapidly switch the MAC address on the WiFi adaptor //

Seems like you wouldn't need to do that, just do something akin to a DoS where the traffic is spoofed to contain a different MAC? I guess you'd need driver level access to the adaptor though.

Or, maybe you can just send data whilst flipping random bits in the MAC address memory address location?

Sounds like a fun project!


Then people will do Probe Request scanning, which circumvents most MAC randomizations.




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