wigle.net Reviews and Details

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• Show HN: Run a Website from an Old Phone

  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

• Nearby peer discovery without GPS using environmental fingerprints

  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

• Ring to partner with Flock, a network of cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

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

• Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results

  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

• Modern Wardriving

  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

• Show HN: BeaconDB – An Alternative to Mozilla Location Services

  As nobody has yet mentioned it, there is also WiGLE [1] which has tracked over a billion unique networks. [1] https://wigle.net/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• 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 / over 2 years 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 / over 2 years 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: over 2 years 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: about 3 years 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: about 3 years 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: about 3 years 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: over 3 years 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: over 3 years ago

• No WiFi adapter found for Thelio Major

  Visit https://wigle.net/ before you call me crazy. Source: over 3 years 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: over 3 years ago

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

  Your SSID and location are recorded into https://wigle.net/. Source: almost 4 years 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: almost 4 years 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: almost 4 years 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 / almost 4 years 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: almost 4 years ago