Re: Tutorial: Query the Apple database with Python for your access point BSSID
Marian <[email protected]>
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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.