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Subject: Re: How to test if your access point BSSID is in the highly insecure Apple WPS database
Date: 5 Dec 2025 19:59:27 GMT
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On 2025-12-05, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> On 2025-12-05 04:08, Marian wrote:
>> How to test if your access point BSSID is in the highly insecure Apple WPS
>> database and, if it is in Apples insecure WPS database, what else is there.
>> 
>> If you'd like me to test if your access point BSSID is in the Apple WPS
>> database, then simply respond with that BSSID & I'll run the Windows
>> scripts I just wrote based on research published recently of the flaws in
>> Apple's methods (some of that research is listed in the signature below).
>> 
>> Note that your BSSID should not be in Apple's database if you've opted out
>> by appending "_nomap" to your access point SSID (e.g., "my.ssid_nomap").
>> 
>> None of my access point BSSIDs are in the Apple database, but I have the
>> optout keywords _optout_nomap appended to all of them, but once I confirm
>> the process works, I'll be glad to write a tutorial so others can do it
>> too.
>> 
>> Let me know which BSSIDs you wish me to look up for you in Apple's WPS.
>
> Or, if you want to do it without involving Arlen:
>
><https://wavedigger.networksurvey.app/?tab=bssid>
>
> I checked mine...
>
> (And I've been using the same router for more than 5 years)
>
> ...and surprise, surprise: it's not in there!

Yup. Same here. Another nothing burger from little Arlen.

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