[governance] Is this for real?

Wed Feb 29 04:17:21 EST 2012

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> wrote:

>
>
> 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....
>
> Please don't start giving them any ideas. It's bad enough them taking my
privacy, my emails, don't want them to know where I am all the time. ;)

> Daniel
>
>
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