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Not exactly related but on the topic of finding target's location, A few years ago i used to run a little demo of capturing probe wifi ssid network on prefered
by ebfe1 1y ago
Not exactly related but on the topic of finding target's location, A few years ago i used to run a little demo of capturing probe wifi ssid network on prefered network list of nearby devices and used https://wigle.net/ https://wigle.net/ to identify places that people has visited... it was eye opening for some people in the audience for sure.
- az09mugen 1y agoWow, the map gives a good insight of where "technological humans" are concentrated.
- thenthenthen 1y agoThat sounds like a super fun demo to do live! I have seen people om social media post their funny ssids around their house…please do not.
- sweetjuly 1y agoRelatedly, one of my favorite recent papers is "Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning System" [1]. In the paper, they (ab)use the fact that smartphones report the location of WiFi access points to public databases in order to track human migration over several large scale events (from natural disasters to the invasion of Ukraine). [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.14975 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.14975