This is painted up and down with security concerns. Does it use any sort of security when contacting the servers? Maybe SSL?
What's more, how can it stop people from poisoning the well by deliberately sending out false SSID's or MAC addresses, or whatever it goes on to determine uniqueness?
Biggest problem, hands down, is that access points do move and change SSID's and even change MAC addresses (well, mine do when I tell them to). A more workable system would be to endow access points with GPS and let them inform the host of their locations. Some modicum of accuracy can be assumed this way and the signal strength and triangulation can still be used to determine the host's location. But this still has security concerns.
This is almost the same argument Jules Verne and H. G. Wells had in the 19th century.
Jules Verne chided H. G. Wells for his fantastic Ideas, saying they could never happen. But as we all know, many of H. G. Wells fantasies have happened.
Separating realistic science fiction from fantastic science fiction takes away one of the greatest motivations of the scientific community.
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Well, you'll be happy to know that some schools have tested the path of not teaching phonics.
The results are that I now have a good biologist friend who can't spell in college. Smart girl, can't spell.
But then, that's a private school for you.
This is painted up and down with security concerns. Does it use any sort of security when contacting the servers? Maybe SSL?
What's more, how can it stop people from poisoning the well by deliberately sending out false SSID's or MAC addresses, or whatever it goes on to determine uniqueness?
Biggest problem, hands down, is that access points do move and change SSID's and even change MAC addresses (well, mine do when I tell them to). A more workable system would be to endow access points with GPS and let them inform the host of their locations. Some modicum of accuracy can be assumed this way and the signal strength and triangulation can still be used to determine the host's location. But this still has security concerns.
This is almost the same argument Jules Verne and H. G. Wells had in the 19th century.
Jules Verne chided H. G. Wells for his fantastic Ideas, saying they could never happen. But as we all know, many of H. G. Wells fantasies have happened.
Separating realistic science fiction from fantastic science fiction takes away one of the greatest motivations of the scientific community.