Hi-
The article you sent indicates that there is uncertainty whether Mac
computers broadcast a previously connected SSID. But this post
http://seclists.org/dailydave/2012/q1/65 from Wuegler says it does but
has not publicly released a demonstration of this.
Macs do send a unicast packet to the MAC address of the 3 most recently
connected routers or APs (probably due to apple dhcp autoconfig) , thus
exposing the mac address of those devices.
And I'm not so sure "linksys" will be unique enough to find a home
address :)
Actually one thing I'm curious about. - Does anyone know whether Google
actually provides an api to allow searches of the data it uses for
location services - I know it used to provide a geolocation lookup
service(address to geo-coordinates), and there are generalized ip to
geocode services out there, but I don't see how just anyone can get
access to the MAC and SSID info Google appears to be collecting from
android handsets?
http://support.google.com/maps/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1725632
I found this which says no longer available
http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_geolocation.html - I would be
curious to actually look at that db.
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Shanna Leonard
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