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Re: Geolocation Question


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:12:48 -0500

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:07:01 +0100, Dan Kaminsky said:
No, he uses an XSS against the router to pull its wireless MAC, and then
puts that into Firefox's location services API.  That bounces off various
wardriving sources and comes up with a latlong.

OK, so it only works against wireless routers that have been wardriven
already.  Makes you wonder what's on those Google Street-View trucks
besides a camera. ;)

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