Re: [isdpodcast] Re: Google doing a distributed wardrive?

[Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek () irongeek com>]

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 just
> last
> > week. 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, by
> ShadowHatesYou"
> >         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 the
> MAC
> > address for my class router, he was able to find it's location when I had
> it
> > on down in Atlanta (I doubt a Google streets car just happened to be
> going
> > by 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 to
> do
> > the geo location), maybe Samy's stuff will work better.
> >
> > Geo locating the router is not such a big deal I suppose, but DaKahuna
> also
> > said he was able to pic up the location of an Android phone if he knew
> it's
> > MAC 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
>
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