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Re: [isdpodcast] Re: Google doing a distributed wardrive?
From: Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek () irongeek com>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:08:59 -0400
The thing is, you have to test the script with someone who you know is far away. The script sometimes falls back on geo locating based on the IP of the device it's ran from, which is annoying as hell. Not sure how Samy gets around this. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:
On 24 April 2011 18:50, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek () irongeek com> wrote:The topic of Android phones reporting the access points they see back to Google interests me. I had been talking to Kevin Johnson about it justlastweek. Today I heard about Samy's project from ISD: http://samy.pl/androidmap But awhile back at Hack3con, DaKahuna showed me this script: #!/bin/bash if [ $# != 1 ]; then echo "# Google Gears WiFi Geolocation API query, byShadowHatesYou"echo "# shadow () squatthis net" echo "#" echo "# Use: $0 MAC " echo "# $0 00-C0-26-A9-42-F7" echo "#" exit; fi; curl http://www.google.com/loc/json -H "Pragma: no-cache" -H"Cache-control:no-cache" -d "{ \"version\": \"1.1.0\", \"host\": \"maps.google.com\", \"request_address\": true, \"address_language\": \"en_GB\",\"wifi_towers\":[ { \"mac_address\": \"$1\", \"signal_strength\": 8, \"age\": 0 } ] }" It apparently ties a MAC address to a geo-location. When he put in theMACaddress for my class router, he was able to find it's location when I haditon down in Atlanta (I doubt a Google streets car just happened to begoingby at that time). Unfortunatly, I'd sometimes get bad results from the script above (it would use my current IP instead of the MAC I gave it todothe geo location), maybe Samy's stuff will work better. Geo locating the router is not such a big deal I suppose, but DaKahunaalsosaid he was able to pic up the location of an Android phone if he knewit'sMAC address. Anyone care to test this for me? Might be interesting if you could track someones location only be seeing their MAC address once. All I've been able to replicate is the location of a router MAC.I just tried this script with my MBP, my wifes phone and my own phone. All three come down to the same lat/long which is the other side of the city to where I am but at least gets the city right. Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "isdpodcast" group. To post to this group, send email to isdpodcast () googlegroups com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to isdpodcast+unsubscribe () googlegroups com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/isdpodcast?hl=en.
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