Mine wasn't even in the same town, let alone street, block, etc.

Miles away.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Kim White <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sammy's app worked for me although it was off by a few blocks.
> --
> KimW
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 16:38, Chris Teodorski 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> So using Sammys app, it nailed me right down to the address.  Using
>> the script, it was 1 street and a couple houses off.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On 25 April 2011 10:57, Adrian Crenshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Jim, do you get the same results with both the script and Samy's page?
>> >
>> > I tried Sammys app and it didn't get a location for any of the 3 MACs
>> > that I tried with the script.
>> >
>> > Robin
>> >
>> >
>> >> 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
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