Article = http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/03/19/tech-im.html
AOL is offering users of its AIM instant messaging service new
capabilites to see where people on their buddy lists are physically
located
Thats nice how do you do it ?
The Skyhook system was developed through a seemingly oddball,
laborious process: Skyhook spent the past few years driving a fleet of
200 trucks up and down the streets of 2,500 cities and towns across
the United States and Canada.
These trucks scan for the pulse given off at least once a second by
every home wireless router or commercial hotspot, recording the unique
identifying code for that piece of Wi-Fi equipment. That code is
correlated with the exact physical location where it was captured
using GPS in the trucks, which cruise the streets at up to 80 km/h as
they collect the information
Let me get this straight. You made a map of every router and hub in
the us and canada , and can now track people by what router they're on
?
Did you get permission of these people to use their PRIVATELY OWNED
routers in your system ? No , you just drove down the road at 80 miles
an hour grabbing your info.
My mind is boggling here at the abuse such a map can be put to. One
over eager cop getting a supena , one router I used to run for years
but then last month I gave it to my brother five miles away because I
bought a brand new one, ... when did my own personal equipment start
working for AOL free of charge anyways ?
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