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Keep in mind that these "anonymous" data points aren't. Your phones MAC address exposes your home wifi network thanks to Google's databases. They also expose wh
by nwh 13y ago
Keep in mind that these "anonymous" data points aren't. Your phones MAC address exposes your home wifi network thanks to Google's databases. They also expose where you work, where your friends houses are, what your favorite coffee shop is. This is beyond dangerous, it's completely unacceptable.
- tzakrajs 13y agoI am confused where you are linking MAC addresses of phones with MAC addresses of home wireless routers.
- nwh 13y agoYour devices broadcast the names of networks it has seen recently in frequent intervals. "Yo HomeWiFI you there" essentially. Anybody listening can then correlate them with Googles database to find out detailed information about the user. Usually people have a huge list of connected networks which will be announced and give huge information about the user. "MIT" SSID? Probably a student then.
- lunixbochs 13y agoPhones don't simply broadcast a complete list of networks they remember.
- lxa2 13y agoyes they do. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2013/papers/imc148-barberaSP106.pdf http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2013/papers/imc148-barber...
- timmaah 13y agounacceptable on which end? The coffee shop collecting the info or your phone exposing it?
- nwh 13y agoGoogle shouldn't have collected the data, devices shouldn't be announcing previously connected networks, and this awful privacy destroying system shouldn't exist.