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in reply to Mod

Apple and Google are to blame. Don't blame the unaware for the sins of the unethical.

Plus, don't blame me, I hide my SSID and it ends in the magic _nomap that prevents this stupid shit. So wardriving is not exactly a major problem for the informed.

in reply to hansolo

As if hiding your SSID does anything beyond making you stick out as having something to hide, or that wardrivers would respect the suffix to your SSID
in reply to deranger

The _nomap suffix prevents Apple devices from automatically mapping a WiFi connection.

Did ya even read the article?

in reply to hansolo

Yeah, I did. Did ya consider there’s more than just Apple who are collecting this data?

PS: each company has a different suffix, so you’re going to need to add a few more suffixes for them to even consider voluntarily not collecting that data.

in reply to deranger

What a great point you make: know your threat model, know your environment, act accordingly.
in reply to Mod

Back in the day, it was considered nice to put your geographical coordinates in your DNS record.
Of course, you could also run whois. Even finger. It was fairly different.