[AusNOG] Google creepier than Conroy?

[Robert Loomans]

On 02/06/2010, at 12:18, Mark Andrews wrote:

> 
> In message <6D536E9BB0D29041B7F40B41E885EFFA2338AF974C at WSMSG3154V.srv.dir.telst
> ra.com>, "Pinkerton, Eric" writes:
>> 
>> So if the list of SSID's in your locale consists of common ones, say NETGEAR 
>> or DLINK, or you don't have a wifi connection at all obviously it's going to 
>> be harder/impossible to guess so it has to fall back on your ip address which
>> is far less specific.
>> 
> 
> SSID + MAC (bssid) should be globally unique as the MAC should be
> globally unique unless the vendor has stuffed up or the MAC has
> been overridden.

Exactly... in fact, I think the WiFi-based geolocation services don't care about the SSID at all:

http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/submit_ap.php

They only want the the MAC address (ie, BSSID).

Rob

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