XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: bert@iphouse.com   
      
   In news:n8f48n$p0h$2@news.albasani.net "Alice J."   
    wrote:   
      
   > I just recently found out that our cellphones may be giving google,   
   > (by default anyway), in general, all the SSIDs around us, but, more   
   > sinisterly specifically, the SSID of our own home broadband routers.   
      
   Acutally, you're "giving away" the SSID and MAC address of your home   
   router to the outfits that both Google and Apple hire to roam the   
   streets harvesting that information for their location services.   
      
   How else do you think they know where WiFi-only devices are located?   
      
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   bert@iphouse.com	St. Paul, MN   
      
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