[Noisebridge-discuss] google war driving
Jason Dusek
jason.dusek at gmail.com
Fri Apr 30 19:57:45 UTC 2010
2010/04/29 karen marcelo <karen at srl.org>:
> streetview google van logs MAC addresses.
>
> [...]
>
> so i think every meeting if so inclined, those who want to
> exchange hubs are encouraged to bring them in at the next
> meeting and exchange away :)
I think this will do little to improve privacy for many
people. The databases used by Google, &al. would remain
relatively useful so no major firm would be discouraged from
this practice.
What could we do to improve things?
. We could provide a shell script included in OpenWRT that
cycles ones MAC at random intervals, between 5 minutes and
an hour, and make sure its easy to enable it. This only
helps very adventurous persons, though. No grandmothers with
flashing clocks need apply.
. We could write some sort of controller script that can be
pointed at an IP on your local network and tries to use the
router's web control panel to reset the MAC at random
intervals. The potential for mayhem/confusion in this case
is pretty serious but it could be an easy to use .exe that
ran on grandma's old Alpha or Wang.
I don't have any other ideas.
We could also just not worry about; these routers beam all our
data to the NSA/Wal-Mart mountain fortress, anyways.
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Jason Dusek
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