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Re: [FD] Jamming WiFi tracking beacons
- To: Keira Cran <keiracran@xxxxxx>, "fulldisclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <fulldisclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [FD] Jamming WiFi tracking beacons
- From: surivaton <surivaton@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:29:24 +1000
mdk3 works wonders XD.
i yet to encounter one as i live 40km away for the nearest town but honestly i
would just take the thing and pour liquid nitrogen on it :D
On 16 July 2014 7:26:15 PM AEST, Keira Cran <keiracran@xxxxxx> wrote:
>Hey,
>
>It's great that companies like Apple recognising the threat of tracking
>people via their devices wifi cards' MAC addresses, by randomising
>them.
>
>Naturally, I wondered i it was possible to jam the measurement beacon
>by
>spoofing tons of wifi clients. At one point in London, there was an
>advertising firm with tracking bins [1] and I have a nice clip of a
>technician looking puzzled at one beacon trying to figure out what's
>wrong. (Unfortunately, it's bit too close to home (literally) to
>share.)
>In the US I believe some ad "analytics" firms like SenseNetworks do
>something similar. [2]
>
>Consider this a call to arms then, to put those unused raspberry pies
>you have lying around to good use.
>
>best,
>keira
>
>[1]
>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/12/city-london-corporation-spy-bins
>[2] http://sensenetworks.com/
>
>
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