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I think these are good recommendations. "Threat actors" in the vicinity include, say, people who have the Instagram on their phone. It can read SSIDs but can't
by lynndotpy 2y ago
I think these are good recommendations.
"Threat actors" in the vicinity include, say, people who have the Instagram on their phone. It can read SSIDs but can't put the networking hardware into promiscuous mode.
Regularly rebooting probably isn't worth the pain, but not all compromises are persistent / rootkits.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoWhy would Instagram be able to see an SSID?
- lynndotpy 2y agoPermissions to manage network information. Apps on Android (and I believe iOS, but I'm not 100% certain) with network permissions can see broadcast SSIDs. These are often used alongside geolocation; we used to call this wardriving: https://en.wikipedia.org/Wardriving https://en.wikipedia.org/Wardriving Google also does this, and allows you to opt-out of collection from clients if you include "_nomap" at the end of your SSID: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/1725632 https://support.google.com/maps/answer/1725632