XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: alice.jones-donotspam@ptd.net   
      
   Jeff Liebermann wrote in message   
   n07oabd6saqpcek38qpl9k5t26c1n36uqd@4ax.com:   
      
   > Yep.  The SSID is a broadcast and assumed to be publicly available. If   
   > this bothers you, one solution is to hide among the multitudes and   
   > name your SSID as DEFAULT, LINKSYS, BELKIN, or a variety of other   
   > common names.   
      
   I like this idea, but it has the hazard that your SSID will be in   
   all the rainbow tables.   
      
   If I pick a really good passphrase (assuming it's not in the rainbow   
   tables already), would that work?   
      
   > The problem here is that what Google and similar snoopy   
   > companies really want is your wireless routers MAC address, so that it   
   > can distinguish between the multitude of nearly identical SSID's.   
      
   I use MAC Cloning anyway on my router.   
   I realize the router has a bunch of different MAC addresses, so, may   
   I ask if the MAC address that we typically clone for the cable company   
   is the same MAC address that Google 'sees'?   
      
   If the one MAC address that we can change on the router happens to be   
   the same MAC address that Google sees, would a viable solution be for   
   all of us to stick together and use the following:   
      
   SSID = DEFAULT   
   MAC  = DE:AD:BE:EF:CA:FE   
   Passphrase = It's imperative to make it as unique as you possibly can!   
      
   Seriously, I ask this (I'm not joking).   
      
   If we all used the same SSID and the same MAC on our home routers,   
   and if we ensured that our passphrases were as powerful as we can   
   make them (because we're in the rainbow tables otherwise), would   
   that work to foil google?   
      
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