XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> But the fact is you can be tracked anywhere in the world if you use the   
   >> same router, which very often people who have moved will easily do.   
   >   
   > Considering that here the router is often provided by the Telco, when   
   > you move you have to hand over the old router, and get a new one with   
   > the new contract at the new destination.   
      
   I agree with anyone, no matter who they are, who posits a sensibly logical   
   statement, where I would heartily agree with you that if you hand back the   
   router to the telco, then you can't be tracked by subsequent use of it.   
      
   However...   
      
   The argument made by the security researchers is valid that they tracked   
   "longitudinal" movements over the course of a year using Apple WPS.   
       
      
   The researchers argue that Apple makes it trivial to collect millions of   
   router locations which they can track on a massive scale because there are   
   no security controls whatsoever (not even a login!) for the Apple WPS db.   
      
   It doesn't take much of an imagination to understand how dangerous that is.   
      
   If Apple honored the "_nomap" & the "hidden SSID" it wouldn't be so bad.   
   But Apple clearly does not honor their own rules (which I can prove).   
      
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