Yikes.
"Academic researchers have demonstrated how Apple’s Wi-Fi-based positioning system (WPS) can be abused to collect a worldwide snapshot of Wi-Fi BSSID (Basic Service Set Identifier) geolocations and to track devices’ movements in a setup that can be used for global surveillance."
https://www.cs.umd.edu/~dml/papers/wifi-surveillance-sp24.pdf
Yet another robot
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2024-06-02 13:07:21
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