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• Apple allows applications to track user locations without authorization

  SSID / BSSID is often enough to pinpoint the location of someone. Recently someone debated this with me, so I asked him what his wifi AP name was, then proceeded to provide their home address. How? By searching it in https://wigle.net. That ended the debate quite swiftly. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Apple allows applications to track user locations without authorization

  IP gives you a rough location (like which city at best), SSID/BSSID can give you street/building level accuracy if it's in a database like https://wigle.net Considering the scale of these apps, I'm guessing they have internal wifi<->location databases with fairly great accuracy. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• DDos Wifi?

  There are also wardriving databases (like wigle.net) that have information about Wi-Fi networks detected by wardrivers all around the globe which may includes yours. Source: 5 months ago

• I am new to cybersecurity and was trying to access my wifi through wifite to really see if wifite can be used to access wifi without password and this is what i got, can someone tell me what did i do wrong

  You can use a site like https://wigle.net/ and type in wifi SSIDs and use it to potentially locate your whereabouts. Source: 10 months ago

• suspicious individual walking around building

  This sounds like manual wardriving and a lot of unnecessary work. Check out Wigle and you might be able to find the answers you're looking for or you can download their app and contribute. Source: 10 months ago

• LPT: Print a QR code of your wifi information so guests can simply use their camera to join your wifi network.

  I could also look at a wardriving database of wifi access points in your area using something like https://wigle.net/. Source: 11 months ago

• On my commute to work today I saw this on the side of the road.

  Put the wifi name in https://wigle.net and see if you get a hit near you. Source: about 1 year ago

• GDPR and Wi-Fi Geolocation

  American here, but an SSID is not PII, so there should be no compliance issues with GDPR. If the database is pairing SSIDs with other pieces of information that tie back to users ,then possibly...but there are sites like wigle.net that have mapped out SSIDs for years. Source: about 1 year ago

• No WiFi adapter found for Thelio Major

  Visit https://wigle.net/ before you call me crazy. Source: about 1 year ago

• Leave some drip for the rest of us bro

  Bro doxed himself with the SSID he's connected to. It's on wigle.net. Source: about 1 year ago

• this is it, this is how my router will be called

  Your SSID and location are recorded into https://wigle.net/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Reddit post about this guys car and the owner posts a comment on it.

  It's not illegal. All it does is log wifi ssids (names), mac addresses and their (approximate) GPS position. This is why sharing your wifi name with random people is not ideal. If you have a very unique wifi name your location can be pinpointed using https://wigle.net/. It's better than IP geolocation if someone already covered your area while wardriving. Even worse if you share a screenshot of your wifi settings... Source: over 1 year ago

• The number of antennas on this car

  War driving is similar but now that there's wifi you just dive around and have your computer scan the wifi networks into a log file with gps data. OP says that they upload this data to wigle.net which seems to catalog wifi networks. The GPS info for wifi networks helps to make location services more accurate but as many people might comment you can collect network information for other purposes but sometimes... Source: over 1 year ago

• Badssl.com

  I forgot to add WiGLE [18] WiFi wardriving information about access points around the world. [18] - https://wigle.net/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• haha having fun with my esp32 marauder device hehe , ofc only on my Wi-Fi :) but definitely cool ! Can’t wait for my dev board to come in tho ;(

  Not sure if you care about location privacy or not, but just in case: be reminded that SSIDs and MACs are identifiers that can be fed into e.g. Wigle to reveal (potential) geolocations. While a single SSID (and MAC for that matter) might not be a globally unique identifier, the combination of multiple SSIDs/MACs (such as the output of a Wi-Fi sweep/scan shown in this motion picture) certainly is. Source: over 1 year ago

• 7 interesting Cellular Maps - Broadband speed maps, 5g wireless cover map, Global Internet Infrastructure map

  Https://wigle.net - A consolidation of the location and information of Wifi SSID's Worldwide. Source: over 1 year ago

• Wardriver.uk

  Other have answered this. The term wardriving is a newer term for wardialing, when people would use modems to call every phone number in an area code to find numbers connected to computers. Instead of phone modems, this modern system captures 2.4GHZ and bluetooth networks along with the GSM location, in a format that allows you to upload it into wigle.net. This is explained on the website-... Source: almost 2 years ago

• How would you respond to the “Anecdotes aren’t evidence” argument?

  I see, thanks. How do I check on wigle.net how many people know about tic-tac UFOs? Source: almost 2 years ago

• IP Address Question

  One interesting thing I found was about how google street view cars previously to record Wifi networks SSID's which lead me to find how google locations services and sites like wigle.net contain similar information. Source: almost 2 years ago

• What to censor in a network scan for a school project?

  Thanks! The reason I'm censoring the MAC address is because of wigle.net which can geolocate a unique combination of proximal MAC addresses. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys using facial recognition technology to crack down on theft, Choice says | Facial recognition

  Your phone transmits the SSID of every network you connect to. If you connected to your home network then it's "asking for it".. Which can be easily captured and they can look up your network on wigle. They can quickly narrow down where you live. Source: almost 2 years ago