Finding the Physical Location
There are 2 popular services for finding the physical location of a device based on their MAC address: Google Locations and Skyhook. For our case study we used the Google API and provide code and brief examples on how to access that information in your own programs.
Default Settings Expose Routers
For our research, we looked at a recent vulnerability in DD-WRT discovered by Chris Heffner as an example of how to elevate an information leak into determining the home address of the wireless device. Full information on the exploit as well as instructions on preventing the bug is provided.
Search for Router
Searches the entire Google Locations database, not just our list of DD-WRT routers.
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