WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations
71 points - yesterday at 12:57 PM
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luma today at 6:00 PM
Looks like an open version of SkyHook from way back in 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_Wireless
For a while they had a paid program, I had a Windows Mobile app I could run with an external GPS dongle that would record wifi APs and location, upload to skyhook, who would occasionally cut me a check for my trouble. I made tens of dollars!
drnick1 today at 5:26 PM
I started rotating my BSSID weekly after I learned Apple and Google abused it to track the location of people and devices.
Permanent hardware or software IDs, such as the Windows GUID or machine-id on Linux (systemd) are inevitably abused for surveillance sooner or later.
anigbrowl today at 6:12 PM
Isn't this just wha WIGLE does?
deleted today at 6:56 PM
oulipo today at 4:45 PM
Interesting, wondering why Apple doesn't restrict the queries to its server using a certificate that would be pinned on the devices, etc, so at least you would need a legit iPhone/Mac to be able to do a query?
doublerabbit today at 4:13 PM
Cool. This'll go nicely with my hackslab and tinfoil hat upgrade.