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A comment on Mozilla Stumbler 1.0.

Re:Mozilla Stumbler 1.0 by millzlane on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @08:34AM (#8526801)
Will this still collect hidden SSID's?
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Re:Mozilla Stumbler 1.0 by hannosch on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @10:04AM (#8527176)
It won't, see code here -> https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/blob/dev/android/src/...

The first check is "if we don't get a SSID, we don't collect". That's what happens with hidden networks.

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Re:Mozilla Stumbler 1.0 by st3fan on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @09:48AM (#8527110)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure hidden SSID's do not broadcast their network name and thus will not be found by a scanner.
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Re:Mozilla Stumbler 1.0 by hackuser on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @03:09PM (#8529211)
Networks with hidden SSIDs can be detected many other ways. A little searching quickly will turn up methods.
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