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by akama 4198 days ago
It's interesting the attention that passive wifi tracking is receiving. Another person and I actually wrote software a client to install on raspberry pi's and a server to store all the results. We deployed this on our college campus and were shocked by how well we could track devices [1]. This is a serious problem given a large scale of sensors.

[1] We only stored a bcrypt hash of the mac address given the privacy concerns.

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I've been toying around with monitor mode on the Pi, and I'd love to see your implementation if this. Do you have a write-up somewhere? (I have no nefarious intentions, though that assertion is admittedly useless when it comes from a stranger on the internet)
Sure thing, I'm not sure if the code on github is stable, but the client is https://github.com/B0bby/StudySniffer, and the server is https://github.com/UnrealAkama/SnifferServer.

If you have any questions, just reach out to my email. I'll be glad to help.

Much appreciated!