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The problem is not that the router is currently broadcasting a BSSID that exists elsewhere. The problem is that a geo-wifi database contains an association bet
by MatthaeusHarris 11y ago
The problem is not that the router is currently broadcasting a BSSID that exists elsewhere. The problem is that a geo-wifi database contains an association between their address and a BSSID.
They can change the router, and eventually the problem should sort itself out (if it is indeed their router and not a neighbor's that is the issue), but it's going to take until the old record ages out of the database for it to happen. And that could be months or years.
- Nikker 11y agoThe one thing people seem to be glossing over is, why or how do all these lost phones and people share the same geographic element between them?
- outworlder 11y agoBecause they all use the same third-party database. Probably Skyhook or something similar.
- ghaff 11y agoAh. Fair point.