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Article #176Re: NEWS: Google accused of criminal intent over StreetView data
From: Bob
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:26
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:26
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On 11/06/2010 02:42, Brad Allen wrote: >> Where I live over 50% oh households turn off their routers when they are >> not at home and at present I am staying at relatives, about 200 miles >> north of where I live, and that figure has increased to about 80%. I >> would also say that with people changing their ISP options and >> consequently their SSID's, most people never change their ISP's unique >> SSID's but everytime the router or ISP is changed the SSID changes, >> that their has been a 40% change in the last 18 months and I doubt >> Google are going to renew their database that frequently so I am not >> convinced about using consumer wifi as a location device in the UK. It >> would probably work with wifi hotspots which tend not to change and are >> near to your "fish and chip shops" but I see no reason for them to be >> recording wifi networks on housing estates which are a couple of miles >> away from anything. > > You'd have to think like a programmer to realize these things, but: > > 1. MAC addresses (Bob Metcalfe et al& Std Bodies) are used, not SSIDs. As I pointed out the router is being changed and hence the MAC address is changed.
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