Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> Implications of Tracking <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Wireless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wireless</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AccessPoints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AccessPoints</span></a> (<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WAP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WAP</span></a>) </p><p>Why Your <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WiFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WiFi</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Router" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Router</span></a> Doubles as an <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AirTag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirTag</span></a><br><a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/why-your-wi-fi-router-doubles-as-an-apple-airtag/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/wh</span><span class="invisible">y-your-wi-fi-router-doubles-as-an-apple-airtag/</span></a></p><p>Researchers present attack that allows unprivileged attacker to amass worldwide snapshot of Wi-Fi <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BSSID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSSID</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/geolocations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geolocations</span></a> in only days. Merely exploiting fact that there are relatively few dense regions of allocated MAC address space. Applying this technique over course of a year, we learned the precise locations of over 2 billion BSSIDs around the world.</p>