Re: Google doing a distributed wardrive?

[Jim Halfpenny <jim.halfpenny () gmail com>]

I got exactly the same behaviour with my non-android phone and home
router, a location bang in the centre of a nearby town. Perhaps google
have lowered the resolution of the service in the uk?

Jim

On Sunday, 24 April 2011, 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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