XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: alice.jones-donotspam@ptd.net   
      
   In message n9bf0v$dsm$2@blue-new.rahul.net, dold said:   
      
   > The ability to geo-locate MAC addresses was turned off a few years ago.   
      
   While I haven't been successful yet, Andy Burns certainly was, so,   
   you need to be aware of the following:   
      
   1. Even if you don't own Android, and,   
   2. Even if you (like I) turn *off* everything that can spy on you,   
   3. Your stooopid neighbors and friends aren't as smart as you are,   
   4. Such that *they* are spying on you when they're near you,   
   5. By sending YOUR multiple MAC addresses & location to Google!   
      
   Worse...   
   A. Anyone with the skills that Andy Burns clearly has,   
   B. Can simply query the Google database, once they know YOUR Mac addresses   
   C. Such that they can geolocate YOUR LAST POSITION.   
   D. (Which "can" be, AFAICT, your phone, under certain circumstances.   
      
   For example, if a husband suspects a wife of cheating with his best   
   friend, he can simply run a script that queries the Google public DB   
   for the simultaneous location of both his wife's phone MAC and his   
   best friend's home router.   
      
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