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hannosch

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About hannosch

Hanno Schlichting, unimportant protagonist.

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    Comment #8529889

    Yep. These services only store and transmit the BSSID (which is most often the mac address of the network card). The only place the SSID (clear text name) is used is in filtering o…

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    Comment #8529864

    Both the Mozilla API as well as Google have this "you need to know two" protection. At Mozilla we go a bit further and also make sure the two BSSID's you are sending aren't almost …

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    Comment #8527176

    It won't, see code here -> https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/blob/dev/android/src/... The first check is "if we don't get a SSID, we don't collect". That's what happens with h…

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    Comment #8527149

    Good question, I added a ticket to get this addressed: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/330 I wrote about some of the topics a while back. Not all of it is up-to-date but …

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    Comment #8527102

    Hanno from Mozilla here. Marvin reached out to us about a month back and we have been slow to respond. He just got an email back a week ago. So I think this is still going to happe…

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    Comment #6633347

    Yes, we are aware of this approach, thx for reminding us. It wasn't a priority so far, as we don't have anyone using the search API's just yet.

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    Comment #6633336

    The app isn't really polished yet, so we deliberately kept it out of the play store for now. The app does have its own updater, so once you installed it, it should stay current. Of…

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    Comment #6629962

    Thx for the feedback, I've fixed the example to have the right format and provided full URL's in the API docs. The docs where written under the assumption of being reusable for any…

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