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My access points are inaccessible to the public. You would have to trespass deep into my property. No one has any business knowing anything about my network or devices here.
so nobody will ever sniff them then. This is not an answer to the question.
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Out of curiosity, has anyone ever been sued over their SSID?
We had one on our street called FuckOffAndGetYourOwn which I always liked
There was an SSID in my building called "Free Palestine." A couple years later, someone created another one called "The Shin Bet."[0]
I found that to be both disturbing and amusing. After the Muslim grad students on the third floor moved back to Australia, "Free Palestine" disappeared, and when the orthodox Jews moved out of the fourth floor, "The Shin Bet" went away too.
Now it's mostly boring, and while I may be doxxing myself (if you can see this SSID, reply here as we almost certainly live in the same building) but I still have the SSID GranMal (an ironic reference to this[1]).
Moral: Looking at SSIDs can be fun!
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A rapsberry pi, a drop dead simple shell script[1], and airbase[0] will get you this in 15 minutes: [0] https://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=airbase-ng [1] quickliest and dirtiest: #!/bin/bash while read line; do echo "creating basestation ${line}" airbase-ng -c 9 -e "${line}" -W 1 wlan0 & done
You should also randomize the BSSID.
Are you sure they're not doing this to get approximate location for use with A-GPS? Sure, GPS will work without it, but your time to first fix is going to be much longer, and your phone will have no idea where you are while you're waiting for that fix. There's a good overview of A-GPS in module 5 here [1]. This is just how people expect GPS to work on modern mobile phones, to the point where they'd probably consider…
(The datasheets are not a lie. I have had a ZED-F9P on the shelf for a month or so. Plugged it in and had a fix in 32 seconds. The delay was that I could only see 3 GPS satellites, so had to fall back to the slightly slower multi-constellation warm start.)
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> to an open source implementation of those APIs Is this MicroG? https://microg.org/
No, microG is a partial reimplementation of some of the functionality in the Google Mobile Services (GMS) app. Unfortunately, this approach has significant drawbacks. In order to install microG, your version of Android OS needs support for spoofing the cryptographic signatures of apps. Some OSes like LineageOS and CalyxOS allow this. See [1] for some pointers about why this is considered harmful. There was also a rec…
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> to an open source implementation of those APIs Is this MicroG? https://microg.org/
No, microG is a partial reimplementation of some of the functionality in the Google Mobile Services (GMS) app. Unfortunately, this approach has significant drawbacks. In order to install microG, your version of Android OS needs support for spoofing the cryptographic signatures of apps. Some OSes like LineageOS and CalyxOS allow this. See [1] for some pointers about why this is considered harmful. There was also a rec…
>The signature spoofing could be an unsafe feature only if the user blindly gives any permission to any app, as this permission can't be obtained automatically by the apps. Moreover, to further strengthen the security of our ROM, we modified the signature spoofing permission so that only system privileged apps can obtain it, and no security threat is posed to our users.
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Organic Maps is the open source fork of Maps.me. It's very similar, but better maintained, and has less shady stuff
I like Organic Maps, just hoping for Android auto support.
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Out of curiosity, has anyone ever been sued over their SSID?
I have a neighbor whose SSID is itHurtsWhenIP. I've always liked that.
While it may not be the source of your neighbor's SSID, It's certainly possible (maybe even likely) that it's a reference to this song[0].