iOS 17.1 finally fixes a three-year-old Private Wi-Fi Address security hole

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 users with a way to avoid being tracked while connecting to Wi-Fi networks. But according to Ars Technica, the feature never really worked in the first place because of a security vulnerability. Apple finally fixed it with the latest iOS 17 update. The issue, documented as CVE-2023-42846 in

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