Re: Does anyone respect a Wi-Fi Access Point SSID with _optout_ or _nomap anymore?

Marco Moock wrote:
> soyon wrote:
>> If you are broadcasting your SSID, can I ask you a question?
>> Do you use the _optout_ and/or the _nomap on your own router's SSID?
>
> I don't use it and I won't, because I don't care about Mozilla's or
> Google's brain farts anymore.

I don't use it and never used it. Nor do I see it in my neighbourhood
or in other placed. And Google has stopped collecting SSID data and
deleted what they had gathered. At least so they say. And this time
I'm inclined to believe it, because it violated Eu's privacy laws and
they would face another huge fine.

> I don't use their services. If other devices see my SSID, they might
> collect that, but anybody walking down the street can see the SSID and
> create a map of the SSIDs via GPS.

They can, but in a high-wifi-density neighbourhood it wouldn't be
trivial to link all SSID's to specific addresses.


> I see no direct problem for me here.

What goes for you doesn't neccessarily go for others too.

-p