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   Marian to Carlos E.R.   
   Re: How to test if your access point BSS   
   09 Dec 25 19:24:18   
   
   XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android   
   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> Now scale that up: Track migration patterns of entire neighborhoods.   
   >> Correlate MACs with census data, property records, or advertising IDs.   
   >> What was just public information becomes a de facto surveillance system,   
   >> without meaningful consent from the people being tracked.   
   >   
   > Yes, this is true.   
      
   Hi Carlos,   
      
   Thank you for understanding the problem set.   
      
   I'd like to make a critical point about your understanding of the issues.   
   a. The security researchers are the ones flagging this serious issue   
   b. It's only with the Apple WPS database (not with the Google WPS db)   
   c. That's because Apple allows millions of BSSIDs to be collected in days   
      
   Another point I'd like to make is that the Apple trolls do not UNDERSTAND   
   what you and the security researchers (and I) understand (see above).   
      
   The Apple trolls are spending all our valuable time with lame excuses   
   attempting to defend Apple's insecure WPS database to the death, no matter   
   what.   
      
   Chris, for example, just claimed I'd never write the code to track people.   
   And yet, I already wrote it. I posted it on the weekend. So it's there.   
      
    From: Marian    
    Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.internet.wireless,alt.co   
   p.microsoft.windows,alt.comp.os.windows-11   
    Subject: Tutorial: Query the Apple database with Python for your access point   
   BSSID   
    Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 10:55:40 -0700   
    Message-ID: <10h1qmr$2alo$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>   
      
   If you feed any number of BSSIDs to that python script, it   
   feeds back the GPS locations to 8 decimal places of the BSSID.   
      
   If I can write that code in seconds, imagine what a nefarious malevolent   
   team could do who cares to track millions upon millions of people by BSSIDs.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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