XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-09 15:13, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-08 08:54, Chris wrote:   
   >> Marian  wrote:   
   >>> Chris wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> They also report that 0.06% of all APs moved month to month. That's a   
   >>>> really poor hit rate for "tracking" people.   
   >>>   
   >>> Any imaginative person can think of many instances where having a   
   >>> database   
   >>> of all the people who moved and exact where from and to, is useful.   
   >>   
   >> Not people. WAPs.   
   >>   
   >>> Let's just say California wanted to find all the people who moved from   
   >>> California to Florida who retired to ask them to pay their 401K taxes.   
   >>>   
   >>> It would be trivial, using Apple's WPS system, to find everyone in any   
   >>> given county in Florida who recently moved there from California.   
   >>   
   >> Go on then. If it's so trivial, why don't you do it?   
   >>   
   >> Show us with step by step instructions how many *people* - as you claim -   
   >> moved to FL from CA in the last six months.   
   >>   
   >> You have a week. If you can't then I call bullshit.   
   >>   
   >> I know what will happen, however. You won't even try. You will cry, shout   
   >> and stomp your feet blaming everyone else apart from yourself. Just   
   >> like a   
   >> big baby.   
   >>   
   >> You'll not hear from me until next week so as to not direct you from this   
   >> important privacy risk study.   
   >   
   > His point is correct, though. An interested party could dig out this   
   > information, even if Arlen doesn't come out with code to do it.   
   >   
      
   Tell us how an "interested party" associates a particular person with a   
   BSSID in the first place.   
      
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