[ebfe1]

Not exactly related but on the topic of finding target's location, A few years ago i used to run a little demo of capturing probe wifi ssid network on prefered network list of nearby devices and used https://wigle.net/ to identify places that people has visited... it was eye opening for some people in the audience for sure.

[sweetjuly]

Relatedly, one of my favorite recent papers is "Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning System" [1]. In the paper, they (ab)use the fact that smartphones report the location of WiFi access points to public databases in order to track human migration over several large scale events (from natural disasters to the invasion of Ukraine).

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.14975

[thenthenthen]

That sounds like a super fun demo to do live! I have seen people om social media post their funny ssids around their house…please do not.

[az09mugen]

Wow, the map gives a good insight of where "technological humans" are concentrated.

[yapyap]

or where people are actually recording wifi networksk, wigle is kept up to date by volunteers

[xattt]

Complete dead zone in my area, even though the wifi SSIDs are saturated.