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If your wifi is on, cities are not the only people tracking your location. It's a huge industry - Euclid Analytics, Cisco, and others are providing stores wit
by klinquist 12y ago
If your wifi is on, cities are not the only people tracking your location. It's a huge industry - Euclid Analytics, Cisco, and others are providing stores with a customer's path, dwell times, etc. Connecting your MAC to your person is trivial with more than one visit to a store in which you pay with a credit card.
It should be noted that iOS 8 randomizes the MAC address during wifi probes, so with iOS 8 you will not be trackable unless you install the store's app.
- dandv 12y agoYou can massively fuck with stores trying to track people, and infect their databases with fake MAC addresses, using Pry-Fi - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.pryfi https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.p...
- wavefunction 12y agoNow this sort of post is why I came to HN in the frist place.
- finnn 12y ago"infect" doesnt quite seem to fit, but yeah +1 for Pry-Fi. I just wish it would let me set a specific MAC for a specific SSID. ie xfinitywifi will let you on if your mac is 00:11:22:33:44:55
- mahyarm 12y agoUsing pry-fi on my Z1 made my wifi connections unstable to a point where I might as well of not had wifi.
- jlees 12y agoA single visit or even a walk-by can reveal a lot too. As I understand it, SSID probing basically reveals all the networks your device knows about to any AP [1]. This can give away a lot of information too. [1] http://blog.rootshell.be/2012/01/12/show-me-your-ssids-ill-tell-who-you-are/ http://blog.rootshell.be/2012/01/12/show-me-your-ssids-ill-t...