Re: home screen icon to connect to wi-fi network

On 9/22/2024 8:29 AM, Chris wrote:

Worse, if you have more than one home access point, your phone broadcast
the unique 96-character BSSID of every one of your home access points.

 
Your phone will broadcast *all* WAPs that you've ever connected to (and not
removed). There's no way for the shop - even if they cared - to identify
which WAP is your home one. Even if they had a global database look-up of
all BSSIDs and geographical addresses. With the exception of if you only
ever connect to a single WAP which is your home.

These are all valid points, as networking isn't something we can guess at.

Everything depends on how we set up our home router & how we set up our
phone, where mine isn't likely set up like yours is set up - but that's
because I know that every phone that passes by most houses is uploading its
BSSID & GPS location (among other things) to Google's public database.

That's how most people set up their home routers (by default).

Note that upload to Google's servers by every phone passing most homes
happens even if people append "_nomap" to the home router SSID (but let's
not go there as that just adds another level of unintuitive complexity).

The fact is most Android phones are set up, by default, to upload to
Google's public databases every BSSID (with GPS location) that it sees.

So we can safely assume your unique BSSID & GPS location is already easily
accessible by any person who knows how to access that public database.

And, we can just as safely assume that my unique BSSID is NOT in that db.

Do we agree on that as a basic starting point.
a. Your unique BSSID is in the public database as is your GPS location.
b. Mine is not.

That's just a basic starting point, but do we at least agree on that yet?