"opt out" of having their wireless access point's SSIDs catalogued, indexed, and exploited by Google's location service by the simple expedient (?) of appending a "_nomap" to the SSID, i.e., recasting the SSID from to . For details and commentary, see the Sophos announcement
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Cheers, -- tlvp
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