Why would that be happening, anyway? It is the base stations that should be broadcasting the SSIDs, and your portable devices that should be listening, not the other way round.
As far as I understand it, when phones aren't connected to wifi, they're constantly broadcasting probe requests for the SSID's that they remember, to see if they're around. A bit more info in the commentary here: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/62124 E -------------------------------------------- Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es On Thu, 23 Nov 2017, at 09:45, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 09:29:48 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
"... it's important that whenever you are done connecting to a public Wi-Fi network that you configure your phone or computer to 'forget' that network. This way your device won't be constantly broadcasting the SSIDs of networks it has connected to in the past...'
Why would that be happening, anyway? It is the base stations that should be broadcasting the SSIDs, and your portable devices that should be listening, not the other way round. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug