On 10/09/13 08:04, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>  1) Android has a mechanism for detecting when it is connecting to a
> portable AP provided by another Android device. Can we use the same or
> a similar detection mechanism to detect portable APs and filter them
> out?

I suspect actually connecting to the APs, as opposed to passively
sniffing, might be on the project's big list of NoNos... But if we
could, I agree we could find more useful data.

> location.) Are there any plans for a crowdsourced mechanism  for
> blacklisting such APs?

Not sure about crowdsourcing, but I believe they plan to use over-time
algorithms for blocking regularly-moving APs.

Gerv

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