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07-08-2015, 05:20 PM
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According to new recommendations by an IEEE study group, the Wi-Fi protocol needs to be updated to use randomly generated addresses for better security and privacy. Today, the 802.11 Wi-Fi standards are designed so that each mobile device gets its own ...





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