XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
      
   Jeff Liebermann  wrote:   
   > On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 19:16:01 +0000, cl@isbd.net wrote:   
   >   
   > >Jeff Liebermann  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> >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?   
   > >>   
   > >> You're mixing two separate and independent problems.   
   > >> 1.  Google knows your location by SSID and MAC address.   
   >   
   > >Only if they know my location.  They know it *approximately* from the   
   > >phone being on but that's all they *have* to know.   
   >   
   > Sorry.  I wasn't specific enough.  Google knows the location of your   
   > wireless router by SSID and MAC addresses.   
      
   That's not a physical location though is it, that was the point I was   
   making.   
      
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