Thank you! That checks with my 2.6.0 and 2.7.1 updates on 5/16 and 5/18

 

Forgot to include your FSAs.. you have a lot!

 

Yesterday when I had "several irons in the fire", incoming texts, whatever else, something that sure looked like a genuine FordPass notification popped up in the center of my iPhone screen (with the Ford "F" logo, looked entirely legit), saying that FordPass wanted permission to be able to tell which devices were connected to my WiFi network. Since I believe that I have approximately the correct amount of paranoia (ha) without going overboard, I thought, hey, I can imagine why OTA delivery might be improved (for us as a group, if not for me in particular) if Ford could gain a sense of how often--or whether--truck's SYNC's and TCU's are establishing connection to owners' WiFi networks, as I'm already able to monitor on a Xfinity/Comcast app. So I figured, yeah, this is more than plausible, plus there had been no request for my network password. I went ahead, tapping "Allow" on the notification. Within about an hour, I noticed that a new "device" was connecting to the WiFi network, and the Xfinity app asked whether I wanted to name it. Again, not having dished out my p'word, of course, I figured what was going on, so I dubbed the new "device", duh, "FordPass".

Now when I'm in the Xfinity app, under the list of devices, both those which are currently connected to WiFi and those which aren't (e.g., my phone, my desktop PC, my laptop, SYNC, the TCU), the one I've named "FordPass" has always appeared as connected, which seems right, since the FordPass app lives on my phone. Tapping over the newly established "FordPass" "device" in the Xfinity app, then tapping on "Device Details", reveals that the "FordPass" "device" is a "Generic Brand", a "Windows PC/Laptop" "model", and for "Device Type" it says "Computer"; as usual there's a MAC Address and IP Address for it. Seems weird, yet barely enough not weird. I'm not seeing specific reference to this in the FordPass app, at least not under Account > Privacy > Privacy dashboard > Vehicle Data, or under "Manage privacy settings" in that path, or under Account > Settings; maybe it will be added in an update to FordPass.

Has anyone else here experienced this?

 

Haven't received a notice like that (but I'm on Android). I presume you've verified it's neither of the MACs in the truck?

 

Yeah they said they couldn’t get those to work.

 

Or I happened to get a more competent/thorough/motivated/connected representative when I called that Software/BlueCruise number at the Customer Relationship Center. Conceivably unrelated, but the OTA's especially began to fly to me shortly after that conversation. Again, I did play up the "Early Access member" card. After all--particularly after all this time--how "Early" is "no later than June 30" (*yawwwwwwwwn*)? Hell, who knows, maybe the apparent responsiveness in my case even has something to do with the fact that I've purchased 5 new Fords within 10 model years.

 

SYNC and the TCU ("mdm9650-tcu") have always shown up as exactly that among the connected/not connected devices per my Xfinity app, and I wasn't aware that either of them are MAC's... I dunno, "MAC" in that context isn't in reference to an Apple product? I'm a little sleep-deprived to Google, lol.

 

The MAC address is the physical address of anything that connects to a network/LAN (WiFi or hard-wired).

Which is why I'm perplexed because FordPass connecting would still use your iPhone's MAC address (it's still just an app on the phone) unless it's intentionally doing MAC spoofing which seems like way more work than Ford would put into it.

If you can see the MAC addresses in the Xfinity app that might help narrow down what's going on. (They're in the format of xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx [there could be hyphens instead of colons].)

 

The MAC addresses are all different for my phone, my desktop PC and the newly-named "FordPass" "device"; however, I notice that the hostname shown for the "FordPass" "device" is the nickname that I assigned long ago to the desktop computer--which I certainly didn't insert when I named the "FordPass" "device", so that nickname auto-populated onto that "device's" details. And the model listed for that host is "Windows PC/Laptop". So the new "FordPass" "device" seems to somehow be piggybacking onto my PC. Maybe that's related to spoofing. Hmmm. Wish I was an IT type.

 

Yes, I got the same update. What gives? What update number?