if you post a picture of a funny nearby wifi name that's unique and been around for a few months or so, i can tell you the gps coordinates where you found it to within a few hundred feet.
if you aren't comfortable posting your approximate location, don't post the wifi name!
if you want to know how, then let me tell you about wigle
i love it when posts read like they could be a 2600 article
theres been a game of thrones reference ssid near every apartment ive lived in and hotel ive stayed in in this city. none of them are on wigle though
looks like there's a single "house stark" ssid in your city at least. it's time to get the wigle app and start wardriving
i'm curious what'd be the opsec pros and cons of renaming your wi-fi SSID "xfinitywifi", which has 18,851,957 noted instances and counting.
one thing is more randos would mistakenly be trying to connect to your network.
didn't realize there was a dedicated site for this, google has a pretty precise API for it though https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation/overview
Don’t post a rare wifi name! Post at least TWO so we can cross-reference and eliminate duplicates
after finding out how few people have the same wifi name as me I'm thinking about naming it something out of star wars or marvel or something so no one can find it
back in extremely the day I used wigle to write a PC app GPS substitute
before, y'know, phones had GPS you could just use, or you could have your phone triangulate you through either towers or wifi on-device
but more to the topic, there is a lot of stuff people just don't realize gives information about themselves away, and I'm not sure there's a good way to resolve it :(
this just made me remember that the SSID is part of the pre-shared key in WPA and WPA2 and that makes me sad :(
Okay, going to add "rename wifi" to the checklist of "things to do when moving".
Though that won't change the router's MAC address. Damn; better upgrade that to "get new wifi equipment".
Not that wigle would be all that useful at correlating my old and new addresses from the unique SSID; it doesn't know the new location yet despite it being over four years, and it places the old location on two spots on nearby busy roads where I guess someone once got a tiny bit of signal.
I have to say, this is quite fascinating. I know someone who's into privacy things and he might find this interesting, if he hasn't found it yet. But dang, our wifi name is pretty unique. I wonder if anyone's found it yet.
imo, the quality of their articles has been going down over the past ~year, but I'm still subbed for Telecom Informer, the payphones, and to have something in my mailbox at random
