Google Street View logs WiFi networks, Mac addresses

MadCat · 2010-04-28, 11:27 AM

Oh boo-hoo it records your MAC address. Great. Did you know that your computer sends it's MAC address along with every damn thing you do on your network? But only to the next nearest device, coincidentally.

So yes, on WiFi, I can sit there and go "oh, someone NEAR here is using MAC address so-and-so". Yeah, well, get any area that's got a lot of domestic WiFi going on, and you've got upwards of 100 to 200 MAC addresses in a 300sq feet area.

Wonder how they'll link that back to an individual.

Besides, it's WiFi. If you don't want your shit looked at when it flies through the ether, get some cat-5 and cable up.

2010-04-28, 11:27 AM	#3
MadCat If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Posts: 247	Oh boo-hoo it records your MAC address. Great. Did you know that your computer sends it's MAC address along with every damn thing you do on your network? But only to the next nearest device, coincidentally. So yes, on WiFi, I can sit there and go "oh, someone NEAR here is using MAC address so-and-so". Yeah, well, get any area that's got a lot of domestic WiFi going on, and you've got upwards of 100 to 200 MAC addresses in a 300sq feet area. Wonder how they'll link that back to an individual. Besides, it's WiFi. If you don't want your shit looked at when it flies through the ether, get some cat-5 and cable up. __________________ What's blue and not heavy?

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