Residential Wi-Fi Mapping Database Revealed 167
Talaria writes "An enormous database of home wifi routers and their locations has been revealed after the Internet Patrol did some digging following AOL's recent announcement of their new "Near Me" service, which allows AIM users to see which of their instant messenger buddies are geographically near them. The database, containing the unique IDs of more than 16 million wireless routers and their locations, has been compiled by AOL partner Skyhook Wireless, which claims to have mapped the majority of residences in the U.S. and Canada."
Coral Cache (Score:2, Informative)
Hit the Coralized link:
http://www.theinternetpatrol.com.nyud.net:8080/en
My only response to "ZOMG databse!!"
is that anyone could do this if they had time and money.
They advertise it (Score:5, Informative)
"Skyhook Wireless provides a software-only positioning system that leverages a nationwide database of known Wi-Fi access points to calculate the precise location of any Wi-Fi enabled device. "
WiGLE (Score:3, Informative)
Revealed? Huh? (Score:5, Informative)
it's been out there for a long time. Most people into war driving know about it.
Re:Does anybody know their methods? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:mod parent up (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Not an accurate representation of what's going (Score:3, Informative)
Unless the SSID has the address in it, which I see that several of the networks around my apartment do. "shadows109" is apt 109 of the complex I live in, 1600villa_107 is unit 107 of the apartments at 1600 Villa street, and so on.