Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking for lost phones?

Re:Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking f... by mapgrep on Thursday January 21, 2016 @03:55PM (#10948252)

Good point. My understanding is that both SSID and MAC address are typically used as inputs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system

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Re:Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking f... by JonnieCache on Thursday January 21, 2016 @03:57PM (#10948272)

I guess it's not exactly difficult for the likes of google to remove the millions of 'Netgear' SSIDs from their dataset.

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Re:Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking f... by lucb1e on Thursday January 21, 2016 @05:12PM (#10948858)

I always wondered how it would handle lesser known systems, like the SSID "Train's on-board WiFi" (Dutch: "WiFi in de trein") that we have in the Netherlands. There are not a million trains, but they do appear in a million places. Like with airlines, I'd think they notice, or have a script to detect, "oh we have a bunch of locations many kilometers apart" and then remove them, but since I don't use WiFi location services (I don't agree to share my location with Google 24/7) I don't actually know.

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Re:Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking f... by phantom784 on Thursday January 21, 2016 @05:22PM (#10948963)

I had this problem on a train in the US. My phone insisted that I was in Boston the whole trip, when I was actually several states away.

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