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Your devices broadcast the names of networks it has seen recently in frequent intervals. "Yo HomeWiFI you there" essentially. Anybody listening can then correla
by 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 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...