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   Jolly Roger to Alan Browne   
   Re: Surveillance Risk: Apple's WiFi-Base   
   30 May 24 14:45:18   
   
   XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.privacy   
   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2024-05-30, Alan Browne  wrote:   
   > On 2024-05-30 04:41, david wrote:   
   >> Using , Your Name wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> But of course, launch off the deep end into the panic a pearl   
   >>>> clutching.   
   >>>   
   >>> Unfortunately in this newsgroup there are a lot of know-nothing   
   >>> trolls and a lot of conspiracy nutters, with some 'people' (for want   
   >>> of a better term) being in both groupings.   
   >>   
   >> Seems pretty real in government, Apple   
   >   
   > The silly troll is trying to slant this as an Apple issue.   
   >   
   > It's not. At all.  It's a public broadcast signal - anyone can record   
   > them and where and when they were recorded.   
   >   
   > Don't need an Apple device.   
   >   
   > Or for that matter, any device.   
   >   
   > Just use a database that contains a worldwide listing of known and   
   > uploaded BSSID's such as:   
   >   
   > https://wigle.net/   
      
   "EERMEGHERD! ThIs Is A pRiVaCy IsSuE! HoW dArE tHeY rEaD sSiDs BeInG   
   bRoAdCaSt By MiLlIoNs Of RoUtErS?!?1!!" - morons everywhere   
      
   Next, these smooth brains will try to explain how Apple doing it "Is   
   DiFfErEnT!"... Watch.   
      
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