Jim, do you get the same results with both the script and Samy's page? Thanks, Adrian
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Jim Halfpenny <[email protected]>wrote: > I got exactly the same behaviour with my non-android phone and home > router, a location bang in the centre of a nearby town. Perhaps google > have lowered the resolution of the service in the uk? > > Jim > > On Sunday, 24 April 2011, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 24 April 2011 18:50, Adrian Crenshaw <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The topic of Android phones reporting the access points they see back to > >> Google interests me. I had been talking to Kevin Johnson about it just > last > >> week. Today I heard about Samy's project from ISD: > >> > >> http://samy.pl/androidmap > >> > >> But awhile back at Hack3con, DaKahuna showed me this script: > >> > >> > >> #!/bin/bash > >> if [ $# != 1 ]; then > >> echo "# Google Gears WiFi Geolocation API query, by > ShadowHatesYou" > >> echo "# [email protected]" > >> > >> echo "#" > >> echo "# Use: $0 MAC " > >> echo "# $0 00-C0-26-A9-42-F7" > >> echo "#" > >> exit; > >> fi; > >> > >> curl http://www.google.com/loc/json -H "Pragma: no-cache" -H > "Cache-control: > >> no-cache" -d "{ \"version\": \"1.1.0\", \"host\": \"maps.google.com\", > >> \"request_address\": true, \"address_language\": \"en_GB\", > \"wifi_towers\": > >> [ { \"mac_address\": \"$1\", \"signal_strength\": 8, \"age\": 0 } ] }" > >> > >> It apparently ties a MAC address to a geo-location. When he put in the > MAC > >> address for my class router, he was able to find it's location when I > had it > >> on down in Atlanta (I doubt a Google streets car just happened to be > going > >> by at that time). Unfortunatly, I'd sometimes get bad results from the > >> script above (it would use my current IP instead of the MAC I gave it to > do > >> the geo location), maybe Samy's stuff will work better. > >> > >> Geo locating the router is not such a big deal I suppose, but DaKahuna > also > >> said he was able to pic up the location of an Android phone if he knew > it's > >> MAC address. Anyone care to test this for me? Might be interesting if > you > >> could track someones location only be seeing their MAC address once. All > >> I've been able to replicate is the location of a router MAC. > > > > I just tried this script with my MBP, my wifes phone and my own phone. > > All three come down to the same lat/long which is the other side of > > the city to where I am but at least gets the city right. > > > > Robin > > _______________________________________________ > > Pauldotcom mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "isdpodcast" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/isdpodcast?hl=en. > > -- "The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." ~ W. Somerset Maugham
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