[Battlemesh] Leaking remembered WiFi networks

[Henning Rogge]

When you activate a WIFI scanner, you might see some Smartphones
sending proactive probe-requests for ALL networks they have ever seen
out from time to time.

Quite a bit of "privacy break". ^^

Henning

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Mitar <mitar at tnode.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I remember that WiFi clients broadcast known/remembered WiFi networks?
> But I cannot find any more information about this "feature". Does
> anybody know about this?
>
> Because I was at one conference now and it was happening that when I
> scanned around, I got in the list of known networks many my past known
> networks, despite being in completely other part of the world. And this
> was happening to other people. So it looks quite suspicious.
>
>
> Mitar
>
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