hannosch

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by hannosch 12y ago
Yep. These services only store and transmit the BSSID (which is most often the mac address of the network card). The only place the SSID (clear text name) is used is in filtering out things on the client end. Both looking for "no SSID&
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by hannosch 12y ago
Both the Mozilla API as well as Google have this "you need to know two" protection. At Mozilla we go a bit further and also make sure the two BSSID's you are sending aren't almost identical. That happens in a lot of mode
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by hannosch 12y ago
It won't, see code here -> https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/blob/dev/android/src/... The first check is "if we don't get a SSID, we don't collect". That's
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by hannosch 12y ago
Good question, I added a ticket to get this addressed: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/330 I wrote about some of the topics a while back. Not all of it is up-to-date but it gives the broader context
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by hannosch 12y ago
Hanno from Mozilla here. Marvin reached out to us about a month back and we have been slow to respond. He just got an email back a week ago. So I think this is still going to happen, but no concrete timeline yet.
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by hannosch 13y ago
Yes, we are aware of this approach, thx for reminding us. It wasn't a priority so far, as we don't have anyone using the search API's just yet.
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by hannosch 13y ago
The app isn't really polished yet, so we deliberately kept it out of the play store for now. The app does have its own updater, so once you installed it, it should stay current. Of course we are thinking about adding it to the play sto
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by hannosch 13y ago
Thx for the feedback, I've fixed the example to have the right format and provided full URL's in the API docs. The docs where written under the assumption of being reusable for anyone installed a ichnaea server and not just the sp
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Introducing the Mozilla Location Service (experiment)(blog.mozilla.org)
4 points by hannosch 13y ago|1 comments