[jfrankamp]

Ok so putting this all together, if you run a hidden network at home that means your phone HAS to use a directed probe request to find that network which it will keep trying to do when you are out and about. Am I reading that right?

If so the best way to have a phone that doesn't leak is to have a home network that does... maybe?

[thaumasiotes]

> if you run a hidden network at home that means your phone HAS to use a directed probe request to find that network which it will keep trying to do when you are out and about

That certainly isn't a theoretical requirement; the alternative is "if you run a hidden network, your devices will not connect to it automatically". You'd have to tell them to connect.

[steanne]

or you have your phone turn off wifi once it's out of range of your specified ssid(s). several apps do that; i use

https://github.com/j4velin/WiFi-Automatic

[ThePowerOfFuet]

Exactly correct. Hidden network at home means your phone screams out for it all the time when not at home, because that's the only way it can find it.

[stingraycharles]

If only there was a way to know the location of an SSID! /s

[atatatat]

WPA needs help.