My guess would be by MAC address. If so then you're correct, it's easy to spoof if you have any idea what you're doing.
How about mobile device manufacturers start putting in decent support for network security? This is like having an excessively restrictive firewall, and fixing it by letting any program that asks nicely connect to whatever it wants. Can be made to sound nice for marketing, but doesn't actually work.
Probably it has a second NAT (perhaps with a bandwidth cap) to the low security handheld that's not bridged to the internal network segment with the high-security Wifi and Ethernet ports, with multiple SSIDs. Someone may be able to hack in, but the worse they can do is steal wifi and download pron.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Sounds innovative.... but highly insecure.
How does it determine which device gets to bypass the security and which one doesn't?
It probably wouldn't be too hard to let a laptop take advantage of this "feature" and bypass the encryption.
Thanks, but I think I'll pass.
My guess would be by MAC address. If so then you're correct, it's easy to spoof if you have any idea what you're doing.
How about mobile device manufacturers start putting in decent support for network security? This is like having an excessively restrictive firewall, and fixing it by letting any program that asks nicely connect to whatever it wants. Can be made to sound nice for marketing, but doesn't actually work.
Probably it has a second NAT (perhaps with a bandwidth cap) to the low security handheld that's not bridged to the internal network segment with the high-security Wifi and Ethernet ports, with multiple SSIDs. Someone may be able to hack in, but the worse they can do is steal wifi and download pron.
I agree sppofing a mac address is simple, but you do need to know the address to spoof...