Re: Apple changed their documentation at my request but it proves they don't care about privacy

Keith Thompson wrote:
> In particularly, there's in this thread nothing about Python or
> Windows 10.

The code supplied for you to run is Python which ran on Windows 10.
I know this because I got help in the code from Windows/Python ngs.

So, together, the Windows & Python newsgroup honed the working code.
Do you need me to supply the code for you again so you can run it?

One script will arbitrarily choose a BSSID, and then scrape the Apple WPS
database for that BSSID, and change it until it gets a hit (takes seconds).

Once we have a BSSID in the Apple WPS database, another python script runs
periodically to ring a bell when that BSSID moves more than 100 meters.

We proved that earlier this year by moving the three old Linksys routers
from one section of town to another to simulate people moving from one
apartment to another (where it could track them anywhere in the world).

In addition, another python script run from Windows 10 exactly reproduced
the findings of the research paper, only for thousands of BSSID's, not
billions (which I simply do not have the time or patience to gather).
 *Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems*
 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14975>

The fact every BSSID/GPS pair can be obtained by anyone at any time with
zero restrictions can be proven by anyone who runs that python code.

If that doesn't bother you, then start thinking about what we proved by
running the same Python code on Windows 10 to show the hidden broadcast
BSSIDs not only show up in the unprotected Apple WPS database, but Apple
refuses to solve that privacy problem (which even Google will honor).

When I discussed this with the Apple Maps' executive, the answer came back,
literally from Apple lawyers, was that they'll change the documentation.

And they did.
 <https://support.apple.com/en-ie/102515>
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Anyone with a Windows 10 computer & Python can reproduce all of the above.