One of the most significant but least talked about changes of iOS 5 was Apple's decision to deprecate the use of UDIDs. In this case study, US monetisation and promotion company W3i explains how it ...

Apple introduced a feature that would hide a user's permanent MAC address in 2020, but it's been virtually useless until iOS 17.1 thanks to a now patched vulnerability. When a device connects to a ...

Here’s another reason you should update to iOS 17.1: the Private Address feature actually works now. Introduced in iOS 14, Private Address (also called Private Wi-Fi Address) was supposed to provide ...

Why do we need MAC addresses? I understand that we need them to communicate but why can't everything for the most part be done using the network layer address? I know we occasionally need MAC ...

A Media Access Control (MAC) address, sometimes referred to as a hardware or physical address, is a unique, 12-character alphanumeric attribute that is used to identify individual electronic devices ...

Can you get a Web browser’s media access control (MAC) address from a Web server? It would probably be impractical to send an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request. Can you get a Web browser’s ...