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Could you have pinged a server that only existed on the public wifi, and made the public wifi keyless?
by laurent92 5y ago
Could you have pinged a server that only existed on the public wifi, and made the public wifi keyless?
- twodave 5y agoAn actual connection is not necessary for wifi to contribute to location accuracy. It just uses signal strength to available access points to triangulate. How folks like Google/Apple/etc. are able to get accurate location data for those access points is unknown to me.
- judge2020 5y agohttps://www.zdnet.com/article/how-google-and-everyone-else-gets-wi-fi-location-data/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-google-and-everyone-else-g... https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207056#:~:text=If%20Location%20Services%20is%20on%2C%20your%20iPhone%20will%20periodically%20send%20the%20geo-tagged%20locations%20of%20nearby%20Wi-Fi%20hotspots%20and%20cell%20towers%20(where%20supported%20by%20a%20device)%20in%20an%20anonymous%20and%20encrypted%20form%20to%20Apple%2C%20to%20be%20used%20for%20augmenting%20this%20crowd-sourced%20database%20of%20Wi-Fi%20hotspot%20and%20cell%20tower%20locations https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207056#:~:text=If%20Locati.... TLDR Android & iOS Location Services will automatically contribute wifi data and correlate it with GPS. This can be audited to prove it's anonymously uploaded but it does happen.