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		JankySolutions on Feb 13, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We took a hacker to a public WiFi café (2014) But sniffing probe requests doesn't get you much. You get a list of SSIDs they've seen, which could be potentially bad, but not nearly as bad as insecure sites not being marked as such.

gsich on Feb 13, 2018 [–]

Yes, but the article takes a focus on this too. But it's more useful for tracking people, for example in a large building.

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