Comments on: Have a Wi-Fi Device in Your Pocket? You Can Be Tracked!

By: Vitali Berditchevski

Vitali Berditchevski — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:42:23 +0000

Hi,
I just noticed the above comment. Thank you for the correction, very interesting stuff indeed…

By: correction

correction — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:46:42 +0000

You actually only need one bssid not 3, and there are plenty of scripts out there where all you need to do is grab a MAC, input it and bang you have the lon/lat.

Also it wasn’t some “enterprising individual” that came up with a way to query lon/lat but its the way there system is by default. It passes that info on to google which then serves you a map.

Whats truly scary about all this is that it doesn’t take much to craft a malicious java script to query your wifi adapter. Have an girlfriend you think might be cheating on you? Load your little java script into her iphone by just having her view your specially crafted “site” and every 20min you get a mail or IM with her exact location.

Last thing, this service isnt new its been around since about 05-06 … Orwell says welcome to the 21st century

By: Serguei

Serguei — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:24:21 +0000

That’s it, I’m switching to telegraph.
…—… So simple, so elegant.

By: Vitali Berditchevski

Vitali Berditchevski — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:04:18 +0000

Serguei,
No, this only applies to Wi-Fi enabled devices. Your KRZR doesn’t have wi-fi. Of course, you can still be tracked using cell-phone tower triangulation, but that’s a different story.

By: Serguei

Serguei — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:04:32 +0000

Does that apply to regular cell phones, too? Can my CRAZR give away my location? I don’t even know how to turn off the Wi-Fi option or even if I have one.

(Just never cared enough to find out, I guess – all I want is a portable phone, not a computer that occasionally rings.)