Re: Surveillance Risk: Apple's WiFi-Based Positioning System

Alan Browne · 2024-05-29T19:01:42+00:00

This is a real "nothing to see here" piece of nonsense. Run for the hills! Lock up your daughters!BSSID's do not report anything that is a privacy risk. SSID's could contain private data IF the owner added it to the SSID.Note that some mapping services (such as those used by Google and Apple and others) do collect SSID locations (Lat/Long) which are approximate (but can be narrowed down over time). And thus when Identified can be used as proxy location data. Big deal.So the huge risk is to "travel routers". Sure. Once upon a time a man with a briefcase stayed at a hotel. Yawn with snooze sauce.The article also points out some workarounds for people who feel they might be at risk.

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Jolly Roger 2 years ago

Get f***ed, little Arlen. And have the s***ty evening you deserve.

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Jolly Roger 2 years ago

The "privacy vulnerability" of being able to look up a router in a database and get the BSSID of it and all nearby routers - which isn't exclusive to Apple's database at all. 🤡

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Andrew 2 years ago

Alan Browne wrote on Fri, 31 May 2024 15:15:34 -0400 :

It wasn't surprising that you Apple religious extremists had no adult understanding of what the difference is between an SSID & a BSSID, nor that you Apple religious zealots had no inkling that the MAC-address cloning feature isn't going to solve anything - simply because most routers don't allow you to change the MAC address of the Wi-Fi access point that Apple WPS saves.

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"The threat applies even to users that do not own devices for which the WPSes are designed - individuals who own no Apple products, for instance, can have their AP in Apple's WPS merely by having Apple devices come within Wi-Fi transmission range."

The only 'point' I'm scoring, are the cites to the facts of the matter.

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In this work, we show that Apples WPS implementation can easily be abused to create a serious privacy threat on a global scale.

What's no longer shocking is you Apple religious fanatics deny all facts about Apple that you hate - which - unfortunately - is a lot of facts.

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"Researchers from the University of Maryland have uncovered a significant privacy vulnerability in Apple's Wi-Fi-based Positioning System (WPS). This vulnerability enables attackers to track devices globally by exploiting the way Apple's WPS operates, raising serious privacy concerns."

The adult question to ask of you is why you brazenly deny these facts?

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Andrew 2 years ago

Jolly Roger wrote on 31 May 2024 22:03:28 GMT :

The fact you make that claim is proof you do not understand the flaw.

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"Researchers from the University of Maryland have uncovered a significant privacy vulnerability in Apple's Wi-Fi-based Positioning System (WPS). This vulnerability enables attackers to track devices globally by exploiting the way Apple's WPS operates, raising serious privacy concerns."

There's must be reasons Apple religious extremists deny all facts that these religious fundamentalists hate about Apple products.

One of those reasons you just proved, which is you can't understand these privacy issues at the level that any normal adult should.

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*Apple's Wi-Fi-Based Positioning System is a Privacy Nightmare*

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Andrew 2 years ago

Jolly Roger wrote on 31 May 2024 22:01:51 GMT :

All that vitriol... simply because I cited a proven fact you don't like.

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*Apple's Wi-Fi-Based Positioning System is a Privacy Nightmare*

"Researchers from the University of Maryland have uncovered a significant privacy vulnerability in Apple's Wi-Fi-based Positioning System (WPS). This vulnerability enables attackers to track devices globally by exploiting the way Apple's WPS operates, raising serious privacy concerns."

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Andrew 2 years ago

Jolly Roger wrote on 31 May 2024 20:16:07 GMT :

And yet, everything you just said, is dead wrong, and easily proven so.

"Researchers from the University of Maryland have uncovered a significant privacy vulnerability in Apple's Wi-Fi-based Positioning System (WPS). This vulnerability enables attackers to track devices globally by exploiting the way Apple's WPS operates, raising serious privacy concerns."

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*Apple's Wi-Fi-Based Positioning System is a Privacy Nightmare*

The question here is why do you Apple religious extremists deny every fact about Apple products that you hate - yet which you don't even understand?

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Andrew 2 years ago

Alan Browne wrote on Fri, 31 May 2024 15:20:13 -0400 :

The question here is why do you Apple religious extremists deny every fact about Apple products that you hate - yet which you don't even understand?

"Researchers from the University of Maryland have uncovered a significant privacy vulnerability in Apple's Wi-Fi-based Positioning System (WPS). This vulnerability enables attackers to track devices globally by exploiting the way Apple's WPS operates, raising serious privacy concerns."

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*Apple's Wi-Fi-Based Positioning System is a Privacy Nightmare*

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