Google productionized this with their Google Maps product. It’s how they know more about where you are by utilizing WiFi signals.
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#12In 1895 a young Italian studying Maxwell's equations wondered if perhaps you didn't need wires to send an electromagnetic message, and after months of tinkering beamed the first radio message which rang a bell on the other side of his parent's attic. The first person he showed this to was his mother, who to her credit didn't accuse him of witchcraft but gave him a hug and supported him in all his future ventures. He…
WiFi is wonderful magic, but I’m not giving you the password to my private network.
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#13I don't quite get the point of this. Basically any home or small buisness router is going to have a password or it's a public wifi hotspot anyway. Am I missing anything?
Most business wifi passwords are so ridiculously simple they could be trivially cracked.
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#14In 1895 a young Italian studying Maxwell's equations wondered if perhaps you didn't need wires to send an electromagnetic message, and after months of tinkering beamed the first radio message which rang a bell on the other side of his parent's attic. The first person he showed this to was his mother, who to her credit didn't accuse him of witchcraft but gave him a hug and supported him in all his future ventures. He…
WiFi is wonderful magic, but I’m not giving you the password to my private network.
Why not make your community better by having your router also broadcast an open public network?
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#15The rumor is that the Google Maps car does this.
This has been a known fact for some time
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/may/15/google-ad...
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
WiFi is wonderful magic, but I’m not giving you the password to my private network.
Why not make your community better by having your router also broadcast an open public network?
For the same reasons I don't invite the entire neighborhood into my kitchen for dinner every night. If people want wifi, they can buy it themselves.
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#17Instead of using all this fancy hardware just to contribute to a proprietary database, i'd recommend uploading to BeaconDB[1] using NeoStumbler[2] on your phone.
[1] https://beacondb.net/ [2] https://github.com/mjaakko/NeoStumbler
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