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Account for anonymized MAC addresses #25

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boveus opened this issue Oct 2, 2018 · 1 comment
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Account for anonymized MAC addresses #25

boveus opened this issue Oct 2, 2018 · 1 comment
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boveus commented Oct 2, 2018

It’s quite ironic that any device which anonymizes probe requests actually informs you that they do it — in anonymized devices, the locally addressed bit (second-least significant bit) of the address is set to 1. Therefore, running a simple SQL query lets us know that nearly 25% of devices anonymize MAC addresses (891,131 / 3,570,048 probe requests collected).

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boveus commented Oct 2, 2018

Some MAC addresses have been anonymized by the cell phone manufacturer. These should be ignored or there should be an 'anonymized' boolean available on the device itself.

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