On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:07:01 +0100, Dan Kaminsky said: > > No, he uses an XSS against the router to pull its wireless MAC, and then > > puts that into Firefox's location services API. That bounces off various > > wardriving sources and comes up with a latlong. > > OK, so it only works against wireless routers that have been wardriven > already. Makes you wonder what's on those Google Street-View trucks > besides a camera. ;) >
www.wigle.net and SkyHook have been doing this stuff for a while. Though I suppose there is that rule, "It's only creepy if Google does it"
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