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Web Attack Knows Where You Live
Posted by: eesh ()
Date: August 03, 2010 10:26AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10850875


The attack, thought up by hacker Samy Kamkar, exploits shortcomings in many routers to find out a key identification number.

Many people go online via a router and typically only the computer directly connected to the device can interrogate it for ID information.

However, Mr Kamkar found a way to booby-trap a webpage via a browser so the request for the ID information looks like it is coming from the PC on which that page is being viewed.

He then coupled the ID information, known as a Mac address, with a geo-location feature of the Firefox web browser. This interrogates a Google database created when its cars were carrying out surveys for its Street View service.

Blessed are the murderous.

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Re: Web Attack Knows Where You Live
Posted by: Lurker. ()
Date: August 03, 2010 10:30AM

That's why you don't advertise your SSID.

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Re: Web Attack Knows Where You Live
Posted by: Troll@AOL ()
Date: August 03, 2010 02:23PM

What's amatter eeshiepoo?

You skerrd now?

No worries mate. Just stock up on extra bannana clips.


: )

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"Why don't you LOSERS just pack your flower print DOUCHE BAGS
and get your stoopid @$$#$ THE FUCK OFF MY INTERNETZ!"

- 'philscamms' (the YT Watchdog) ; internet & YouTube® extraordinaire.

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Re: Web Attack Knows Where You Live
Posted by: Gravis ()
Date: August 03, 2010 04:33PM

pff! unless you live on a busy road and it was one of the few cars that collected info, there is no problem.

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The attack uses data gathered by Google's Street View cars


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."095042938540

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Re: Web Attack Knows Where You Live
Posted by: SRE ()
Date: August 04, 2010 11:50AM

Lurker. Wrote:
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> That's why you don't advertise your SSID.

How would this prevent anything related to this subject?

Lurker... you know I could "find" your SSID without you advertising it. I thought you were better than this.

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Re: Web Attack Knows Where You Live
Posted by: Gravis ()
Date: August 04, 2010 12:09PM

SRE Wrote:
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> Lurker... you know I could "find" your SSID
> without you advertising it. I thought you were
> better than this.

go easy on him, he's just a windows user.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."095042938540

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Re: Web Attack Knows Where You Live
Posted by: SRE ()
Date: August 05, 2010 09:08AM

Gravis Wrote:
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> SRE Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Lurker... you know I could "find" your SSID
> > without you advertising it. I thought you were
> > better than this.
>
> go easy on him, he's just a windows user.

He has to be.... Open Source is dangerous, anyone could edit it and put bad code in there... how could you ever trust code that you have not fully reviewed, line by line?

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Re: Web Attack Knows Where You Live
Posted by: Troll@AOL ()
Date: August 05, 2010 04:39PM

::sniff sniff::

Do I smell poindexter cumputer nerds?

:: sniff sniff::

I arrrrgh NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDS!



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==================================================================================
"Why don't you LOSERS just pack your flower print DOUCHE BAGS
and get your stoopid @$$#$ THE FUCK OFF MY INTERNETZ!"

- 'philscamms' (the YT Watchdog) ; internet & YouTube® extraordinaire.

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Re: Web Attack Knows Where You Live
Posted by: fooliohootz ()
Date: August 05, 2010 05:12PM

Troll@AOL Wrote:
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> ::sniff sniff::
>
> Do I smell poindexter cumputer nerds?
>
> :: sniff sniff::
>
> I arrrrgh NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDS!
>
>
>
-1 waste of keystrokes

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