Re:The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet
by weego on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:27AM
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The now kind of forgotten Google row where it was discovered they were scanning all wifi networks while mapping speaks volumes to this. If you have a map that details signal strengths you can infer someones location pretty accurately (not gps accurate, but within the ballpark) even if they have location services off just by logging and plotting them against your wifi coverage map.
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Re:The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet
by dubbel on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @06:21AM
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The thing that people were upset about was that Google Street View cars didn't only scan the public SSIDs, but also recorded all (open) network traffic.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/may/15/google-ad...
Re:The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet
by geek_at on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @06:41AM
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oh yes I remember and they still use the data they collected. I lived in Vienna for 30 years and just recently moved to the country side.
There are no wifi hotspots around me so when I set up my old wifi (same ssid as before and same hardware (bssid)) and checked my phone on google maps it was saying that I still am at the old place because it had not GPS at the moment and then google maps checked the SSIDs around me and looked up where those are located
Was a very weird thing
Re:The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet
by dredmorbius on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @09:16AM
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Both, actually.