Re: Geolocation Question

[Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>]

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.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:56 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:26:26 EST, "McGhee, Eddie" said:
>
> > I only have one question how does Google get the information of MAC
> address's and locations.
>
> I suspect it's a case of bad reporting and they confused MAC and IP
> addresses:
>
> "For now, it works only on FiOS routers supplied by Verizon, and then only
> when
> users are logged in to the device's administrative panel."
>
> I'm guessing it works by poking the router, asking it what its upstream IP
> address is, and then geolocating that.
>
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