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   p.os.windows-11   
   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   Chris wrote:   
   > Andy Burns  wrote:   
   >> Marian wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> See references in the sig...   
   >>   
   >> I hide .sigs to avoid the politics/religion that some people use.   
   >>   
   >> If someone could come up with a single sentence that describes how   
   >> someone could find one or more BSSIDs for a person or family, without   
   >> already knowing their location, that would spark my curiosity ...   
   >   
   > The key question.   
      
   While I respect the question, just the fact someone would ask means they   
   haven't read what the security researchers have said about the situation.   
      
    *Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems*   
       
      
   To summarize in a single sentence, I (can) have every access point location   
   in the world (over 2 billion) if I felt like getting it (and storing it).   
      
   It's trivial to do.   
   And I already proved that statement.   
      
   If I can do it, the bad guys already have.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)