Re: Tutorial: Query the Apple database with Python for your access point BSSID

Marian <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.internet.wireless,alt.comp.microsoft.windows,alt.comp.os.windows-11
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Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chris wrote:
> Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Marian wrote:
>> 
>>> See references in the sig...
>> 
>> I hide .sigs to avoid the politics/religion that some people use.
>> 
>> If someone could come up with a single sentence that describes how 
>> someone could find one or more BSSIDs for a person or family, without 
>> already knowing their location, that would spark my curiosity ...
> 
> The key question.

While I respect the question, just the fact someone would ask means they
haven't read what the security researchers have said about the situation.

 *Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems*
 <https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10540853>

To summarize in a single sentence, I (can) have every access point location
in the world (over 2 billion) if I felt like getting it (and storing it).

It's trivial to do.
And I already proved that statement.

If I can do it, the bad guys already have.
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