[189740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Felder)
Mon Jun 6 11:16:22 2016
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From: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 18:03:41 -0500
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2016, at 17:30, Naslund, Steve wrote:
>
> I guarantee you that Apple does not know where my Apple TV units or any
> of my Sony TVs are because they are on hard Ethernet cables with WiFi
> disabled so if they told the lawyers that, they lied.
>
I woud not be surprised if Apple wakes up the wifi occasionally to
listen/scan for SSIDs on non-iPhone devices where there's no worry of
impacting battery usage. Just because you don't intend to pass traffic
on it does not mean the OS doesn't have a valid use for it.
--
Mark Felder
feld@feld.me
