Just something I've been doing for fun since the late 90's. Started off logging things by hand while my dad drove us around town looking for open wifi to use when doing field work. Later progressed to using a laptop + gps + wifi card going into an amplifier and external antenna on the van in the 2000s. That was when software started to allow for automatic logging of wifi with GPS coords. There has definitely... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Thanks for the detailed response! I completely missed the band division / similarity plan - I’ll read more thoroughly next time. I thought about geo largely because it radically changes the order of magnitude of work necessary; it lets you segment ‘possible’ subsets of APs down to sets of say 100, not millions, and changes the combinatorics. A side effect is knowing a rough spatial location. Off the top of my... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

War driving will give you multiple sightings + signal strength, you can triangulate. https://wigle.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Not exactly related but on the topic of finding target's location, A few years ago I used to run a little demo of capturing probe wifi ssid network on prefered network list of nearby devices and used https://wigle.net/ to identify places that people has visited... It was eye opening for some people in the audience for sure. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

It's not to get into a network, it's just to list where they're at.. For points. Similar to internet points :). There's no hacking involved just nerds being nerds What you find shows up here: https://wigle.net/ As you can see there's quite a few people who do it. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Originally published at http://stacktips.com. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

Today, I am excited to take a giant leap forward in my journey by open-source the codebase of my blog stacktips is now available on GitHub. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

Now I am running this blog stacktips.com. It is a custom-built site, using Python, Django, and VueJS. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

Prefix="og: https://ogp.me/ns#"> StackTips - Resources for Developers property="og:url" content="https://stacktips.com"> property="og:type" content="website"> property="og:title" content="StackTips- Resources for Developers"> property="og:description" content="StackTips provides developer friendly ways to learn programming. We aim to teach developers in the most efficient ways... - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago