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> You do know how this happened right? Wifi SSIDs with similar strengths reveal if people are in the same area, then just correlate timestamps and viola! I mea
by KaiserPro 6y ago
> You do know how this happened right? Wifi SSIDs with similar strengths reveal if people are in the same area, then just correlate timestamps and viola!
I mean yeah, they _could_ do that, but thats a pain in the arse to do. Its far easier to do it on contact lists, interests and implied location from business page follows.
I don't think iOS allows you to track SSIDs, which explains the lack of wifi scanning utilities in the app store.
- MR4D 6y agoWiFi SSIDs have one very nice attribute - they tend not to move around much. So every time you see a Google maps car ( or a Nuro car or a ...), your SSID is getting geomapped. Now, your IP, SSID, geolocation, and who knows what else is now sitting in a lookup table somewhere. So if they get all the other stuff that you just mentioned, they now know more about you than you do!