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Re:WPA cracker in the cloud by yan on Monday December 07, 2009 @05:38PM (#982388)
This helps people in your vicinity have a unique data point when using geolocation technologies that are powered by SSIDs of wifi networks.

Seriously though, I doubt it adds much, even in obscurity.

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Re:WPA cracker in the cloud by ErrantX on Monday December 07, 2009 @07:25PM (#982635)
No. The ssid is used as part of the encryption. Changing it to something very obscure invalidates any precomputed tables and forces a brute force attack
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Re:WPA cracker in the cloud by ryanwaggoner on Monday December 07, 2009 @06:13PM (#982476)
I always assumed that wifi-aided geolocation used the MAC address of the router.
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