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I am confused where you are linking MAC addresses of phones with MAC addresses of home wireless routers.

• nwh 13y ago
  Your 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 ago
    Phones don't simply broadcast a complete list of networks they remember.
    • lxa2 13y ago
      yes they do. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2013/papers/imc148-barberaSP106.pdf http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2013/papers/imc148-barber...