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At least in the early days, every iPhone maintained a local lookup table between ssids and gps coordinates in a SQLite database. https://www.networkworld.com/a
by dmboyd 3y ago
At least in the early days, every iPhone maintained a local lookup table between ssids and gps coordinates in a SQLite database.
https://www.networkworld.com/article/752872/security-apple-officially-responds-to-ios-consolidated-db-tracking-file-controversy.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/752872/security-apple-o...
- tinus_hn 3y agoThat doesn’t mean seeing an SSID means you are at exactly that location. If you are in a city you see 50 SSIDs at any given moment. Are you at those 50 locations at the same time? No. Is there a way to triangulate where you are exactly? No, its unreliable and not an exact science.
- charcircuit 3y ago>Is there a way to triangulate where you are exactly? No The phone knows the signal strength of each ssid. Why can't it triangulate where it is?
- School-Cotton 3y agoIt can and does.
- ycombinatrix 3y agoyou're all over these comments trying to convince everyone that SSIDs can't be used to determine location, yet you don't know how triangulation works? are you trolling?
- tinus_hn 3y ago[flagged]