* Posts by nicholas_head

1 publicly visible post • joined 25 Apr 2010

Google Street View logs WiFi networks, Mac addresses

nicholas_head
FAIL

Not that big of a deal.

Other companies have done this, mainly in the U.S.-- one that I know of is "Skyhook Wireless", which is the database that Apple was/is using to make the "Locate Me" feature on your iPhone work much faster. The iPhone scans nearby WiFi hotspots, then looks up their lat/long via Skyhook's database, giving them a better point of reference to start finding you.

I have made a public interface for checking if your router's MAC is in Skyhook's database: http://www.pdsys.org/skyhook-lookup/