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Help! Unknown Devices on Wifi
Please bear with me and my rant, any help and insight are greatly appreciated... As a super un-tech-savvy person, I'm going crazy with all the scary things I'm reading online! (Hackers, spyware, virus...
Newer device now have "Randomized" MAC addressing. And Apple is one of them. So you can turn that off, I believe. That way you can lockdown your device/iPhone to one IP address. otherwise it'll float around even with one static MAC address.
I get "unknown device" all the time with known devices, MAC isn't always reliable nor the named Meta data of said device. I've never played with Apples WiFi settings that have Randomization, so you will have to find it, if it exists. I have only turned it off on newer Window based laptops and PCs.
It's actually got a name : "Apple Mobile device" but the info just seems very sketchy and doesn't correspond with any of my devices, since they're all on the network and I can actively click into them.
Can a hacker actually get into my network like this without being in range?
Can a hacker actually get into my network like this without being in range?
