XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   Marian wrote:   
   > Does anyone know if Google/Apple WPS databases have BSSID entries sans an   
   > associated SSID?   
      
   It's important to understand that passive capture by mobile devices cannot   
   recover the SSID if no such frames are sent while that device is listening.   
       
      
   Of course, 802.11 beacon and probe frames expose the AP's MAC (the BSSID)   
   and other radio metadata even when the SSID element is omitted or blank.   
   That makes the BSSID observable by passive scanners without active client   
   spoofing. But not the SSID.   
      
   Almost every router has the option of hiding the SSID for a reason, since   
   setting the AP to a hidden SSID means the SSID string is not broadcast in   
   beacons unless or until a client connects to it. The SSID appears only in   
   other management frames such as probe responses or association requests   
   from a client that already knows about the SSID/BSSID pairing. If no client   
   ever sends those pairing frames while the passing mobile device is   
   passively scanning, there's no SSID for the passive capture to extract.   
      
   Hence, whether a BSSID without an SSID ends up in a vendor database is a   
   policy/implementation question we need to find out for Apple/Google WPS.   
      
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