XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: ithinkiam@gmail.com   
      
   "Alice J."  Wrote in message:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   Hah ha! All it might - if it worked at all - tell you is that the   
    two devices had been to the same place, not that they were there   
    at the same *time*. And a husband and a friend are likely to   
    often have overlapping itineraries. Shops, work, cinema,   
    restaurant whilst never going there *together*. Again you've made   
    2+2 = 16.5   
      
      
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