Liteon Technology Corporation

[Andy the Droid]

Regarding your forums' problem with Liteon Technology Corporation's unauthorized mac address, I have a LG Chromebase, and when I turn on its WiFi, I also have a mac address from Liteon Technology Corporation. I read somewhere that some of the power bricks being manufactured in mainland China have the ability to "call home". Try turning off the WiFi on your devices one at a time and see if Liteon Technology Corporation disappears until you find the one that does that. Not sure why it needs to "call home" or what it's sending, but I keep the WiFi off as much as possible.

 

[COLGeek]

What "problem" are you referring to?

Do you have any sources to backup your assertions?

Often, the issue, if I understand your concern, it that users will see an odd wireless device on their home network. My new smart phone, when first connecting, shows up as a Ralink Wireless Adapter. My office Blackberry does something similar.

Given the new-ish IoT devices, folks will see all sorts of things on their networks.

So, what "problem" do you think we have with the forum?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Firstly, Liteon is Taiwanese. Taiwan and China don't like each other, so it's rather unlikely it would phone home there.

Plenty of manufacturers use a wireless module from another company, and it looks like Liteon is one of the companies that make these. Unless the manufacturer has the volume and cash to get a custom batch of chipsets that appear as their own, the device will show up as Liteon.

Nothing to worry about.