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 @BradRubenstein @briankrebs im kinda surprised that people are surprised by this. nobodhy remembers the whole 'skyhook' thing from before iphones had gps? because this is exactly how they used to triangulate phones before they had gps. basically industrial wardriving. now they just have the phones do the wardriving for them. 2 comments
@Viss @BradRubenstein @briankrebs It is kinda interesting that people are surprised, given this kinda use of BSSID data has been done for probably a couple of decades. I expect the current concern is the scale of the data and the number of people relying on WiFi now, making it a bigger privacy issue than it was 20 years ago. |
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@Viss @BradRubenstein Actually the researchers referenced the Skyhook work and have a section explaining how their stuff complements previous research.