[governance] Is this for real?

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 28.02.12 17:21, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message <4F4CE5B8.8010604 at digsys.bg>, at 16:33:28 on Tue, 28 Feb 
> 2012, Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> writes
>> In recent times, it also includes geo-location information, including 
>> the (very) precise location of your home wifi network.
>>
>> This is real funny, I once made experiment with the later: while 
>> traveling, configured an AP with the same SSID that I have at home. 
>> When asked to locate me on the map, Google "found" me at my home 
>> location, even if I was few hundred km away from there.
>
> I'm a bit surprised they are doing it on the SSID of the APs, not the 
> MAC address. (You didn't say if your travelling AP was the same as the 
> one you used to have at home).
>

Different device and model, although the same manufacturer so MAC 
address is similar. It is either poor mapping algorithm (Google also 
makes the weird assumption that they know where particular IP 
address/network is geo-located -- which with modern networking is naive 
assumption) or because my home SSID for a long time was available on 
only one location, it was marked as 'unique' (as long as my mobile 
version of it is not on all the time, their surveillance equipment has 
no chance to map it's location anyway). But all this is technology and 
it will improve....

Daniel

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