WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations

Looks like an open version of SkyHook from way back in 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_Wireless

For a while they had a paid program, I had a Windows Mobile app I could run with an external GPS dongle that would record wifi APs and location, upload to skyhook, who would occasionally cut me a check for my trouble. I made tens of dollars!

	▲	Mashimo 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Ohhh, there was money to be made with war driving? I just got points on a German bb forum.

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drnick1 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I started rotating my BSSID weekly after I learned Apple and Google abused it to track the location of people and devices.

Permanent hardware or software IDs, such as the Windows GUID or machine-id on Linux (systemd) are inevitably abused for surveillance sooner or later.

	▲	S0und 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You have all the good intentions, but since no one else does this around your location, I don't think you're achieving anything.

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anigbrowl 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Isn't this just wha WIGLE does?

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jcims an hour ago | parent [-]

Basically except it's using an Apple service for the backend.

Which will likely get cut off at some point.

	▲	mcculley 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Why would it be cut off? Doesn’t Apple use this on devices?

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oulipo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Interesting, wondering why Apple doesn't restrict the queries to its server using a certificate that would be pinned on the devices, etc, so at least you would need a legit iPhone/Mac to be able to do a query?

	▲	mcculley 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Are you imagining some certificate unique to each device? What would prevent someone copying it?

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doublerabbit 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Cool. This'll go nicely with my hackslab and tinfoil hat upgrade.