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Other options: -The name of the wireless in a database and picking up the first one, could not be fixable changing the router name or ip address as it
by xlayn 11y ago
Other options:
-The name of the wireless in a database and picking up
the first one, could not be fixable changing the router
name or ip address as it is already recorded somewhere
-Same for other routers or ip address in the neighbor
-Maybe it's not their fault but someone else did it on
purpose, e.g. take the cell phone and manipulating it
inside a room with stolen/faked/forged data somewhere
else and wrapped in a metallic sphere to block signals
so only the forged router can be used?
-Even more crazier: put a router really close and put
there a vpn/proxy?
- ghaff 11y agoWouldn't hurt to change the MAC of the router (and the SSID while they're at it).
- gknoy 11y agoThey said they reset it, but I am surprised they didn't buy a completely new one to guarantee a different hardware fingerprint.
- c22 11y agoThey might not understand the concept of a hardware fingerprint. The article mentions that they also "changed the frequency" of their ap which would seem to me extremely unlikely to make a lick of difference.
- MatthaeusHarris 11y agoThe problem is not that the router is currently broadcasting a BSSID that exists elsewhere. The problem is that a geo-wifi database contains an association between their address and a BSSID. They can change the router, and eventually the problem should sort itself out (if it is indeed their router and not a neighbor's that is the issue), but it's going to take until the old record ages out of the database for it to happen. And that could be months or years.
- Nikker 11y agoThe one thing people seem to be glossing over is, why or how do all these lost phones and people share the same geographic element between them?
- outworlder 11y agoBecause they all use the same third-party database. Probably Skyhook or something similar.
- ghaff 11y agoAh. Fair point.
- strathmeyer 11y ago1) Their location is some form of null/zero or the default location 2) Their location is the dead center of some area, such as a zip code, city, county, or state 3) Some frequent error always returns the same bad value