Re: Google doing a distributed wardrive?

[Chris Teodorski <chris.teodorski () gmail com>]

So using Sammys app, it nailed me right down to the address.  Using
the script, it was 1 street and a couple houses off.

Chris




On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:
> On 25 April 2011 10:57, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek () irongeek com> wrote:
> > Jim, do you get the same results with both the script and Samy's page?
>
> I tried Sammys app and it didn't get a location for any of the 3 MACs
> that I tried with the script.
>
> Robin
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Adrian
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Jim Halfpenny <jim.halfpenny () gmail com>
> > wrote:
> > > 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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