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Once you figure out what WiFi network it was connected to, there are lots of tools you can use to triangulate the wifi router's location. This is one of my favorites:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wigle.wigleandroid
It's possible it came from Amazon preconfigured not only with your account info, but also your saved wifi credentials from other devices on your account. If it was connected to your WiFi all along, it was probably someone in your building - and in range of your WiFi!
Not going against this thread but as you said you only used it to find open networks I highly recommend the app Wigle WiFi Wardriving I user it when.. well.. driving and try to beat my score lol
Works for Bluetooth and cell towers as well as WiFi.. top score 3.5k but I don't use it all that much or on long journeys.. still fun though.. can even read the name out to you etc.. lots of options.. :)
Google did do that but SSID maps are available from other sources.
Example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wigle.wigleandroid&hl=en
EDIT: This is an old video and covers some unrelated technologies but it explains a bit more about SSID mapping and how it can be used for nefarious purposes.
Do you have an android phone? this app is fantastic for some basic warwalking, exports to KML which can be viewed in google earth, or on the app. I highly recommend it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wigle.wigleandroid
Maps all wifi access points around you
The above app is accurate don't go by less reviews i have verified with netmonster netmonitor other best apps. These are some kind of web based Imsi catchers
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I use Wigle Wifi. It has the antenna symbol showing what tower it uses and it says tmobile
"WiGLE WiFi Wardriving" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wigle.wigleandroid
I been with virgin mobile for years til it turned into boost mobile
I have no problems whatsoever with my phone
>Since Android 8, our ability to use a phone as a WiFi heat-map or war driving tool is shot to shit.
Been using WiGLE WiFi Wardriving for almost 10 years now.. works perfect for me..?
it's a very slim chance, considering that the speaker will most likely need to be turned on to have the mac address broadcasted over the air. Anyways, wigle wifi wardriving shows names of saved bluetooth devices.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wigle.wigleandroid
>Open source network observation, positioning, and display client from the world's largest queryable database of wireless networks. Can be used for site-survey, security analysis, and competition with your friends. Collect networks for personal research or
Want to try yourself? You can contribute to the mapping of cell and wifi networks with the Wigle.net Wardriving App. It records data such as network SSID and mac addresses, and cell tower identifiers along with signal strength and gps coordinates.
All you have to do is let the app run in the background while you drive and press upload when your done(Anonymously or under a profile).
Install wigle on your phone. That'll get you started.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wigle.wigleandroid&hl=en_US
I run WIGLE when I'm out and finding a unsecured wireless network is like finding a needle in a haystack.
WiGLE WiFi Wardriving
>Open source network observation, positioning, and display client from the world's largest queryable database of wireless networks. Can be used for site-survey, security analysis, and competition with your friends. Collect networks for personal research or upload to https://wigle.net. WiGLE has been collecting and mapping network data since 2001, and currently has over 350m networks. WiGLE is not a list of networks you can use.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wigle.wigleandroid&hl=en
Something like this? I haven't used this app personally, but a google search of "wardriving android" brought this up..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wigle.wigleandroid&hl=en
Don't really need a hack. Something as simple as Wigle Wifi can unmask APs.
So it's basically WiGLE WiFi
Wigle
In the playstore
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wigle.wigleandroid&hl=en
EDIT: haven't wardriven myself, but since this is the app by the site I used, I should probably promote them :P
Wigle is the go to app
After a little experimentation and putting together comments like /u/Trevo's below and some other info I've found on the internet I think I've figured this out. I was able to spoof 2 local Best Buys streetpass relays at home last night.
As /u/Trevo says below, you don't want freeBestBuywifi. I used BBYDemo, and that worked for me, but it's can't be a no-security AP like attwifi...
The AP you're spoofing through whatever homepass method you're using will need to be set up with WPA2-PSK security
But the trick is you will need a PSK password that the 3ds will recognize. This is the part I figured out through deduction based on internet info and experimentation. I realized that since the 3ds is automatically logging in to the WPA2-PSK hotspot, the pre-shared key (or a selection of workable passwords) would need to be inside the 3ds firmware and standardized across multiple Best Buy locations. And then I just googled "bbydemo password" and found that somebody had put a working bbydemo/bbydemofast password on github (https://gist.github.com/bmintz/c793cb172fd6bf154253). That password is "blue1966". So I spoofed an AP at home with SSID: BBYDemo, with WPA2-PSK security, password "blue1966," and the mac addresses I harvested from a couple of local Best Buy locations and OMG BLINKING GREEN LIGHT ON MY 3DS!!!
I'm guessing the mac addresses you harvested from your Best Buy will work as they are shared on the same hardware with the freeBestBuywifi APs.
But in my experience there are sometimes multiple APs inside a single Best Buy that are separate working streetpass relays. You can use the Wigle Wifi Wardriving app on Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wigle.wigleandroid&hl=en) to easily and quickly harvest all of the working APs in a given area.
Or, you can go to https://wigle.net/ and use its map-visualized database of APs with SSID/MAC pairs, search for a Best Buy, filter for SSIDs named "BBYDemo", and in theory find all the info you need to spoof the streetpass relay of any Best Buy in the US. Assuming the data on the wigle.net database is up-to-date and reliable, of course. If it's not, you'll have to harvest the AP info yourself from something like that wardriving app.
>You can also search for blue tooth and WiFi networks...
Thar ya go
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wigle.wigleandroid
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wigle.wigleandroid
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TL:DR: No.
Only if you accidentally sit on the antennas.
Now: there ARE no stupid questions, really -- never mind my snide answer here. You need to consider the answer and who's telling you it AND how they know. The world was flat for millennia, objects all fell at different speeds, bugs spontaneously generated (appeared) from dead matter. And then someone proved it wasn't so and some other people agreed, but then other people DIDN'T agree but couldn't prove them wrong. Same for most everything else, be it sword making, astronomy, barn building, or what-all.
This has been studied, and studied, and studied. Not that they're all perfectly correct -- some could be wrong. But you're going to have to show somehow that is causes harm, and what that harm is. Making your hair turn cosmetically purple is one thing, growing an additional purple eye is another. There ARE people who insist that WiFi radiation harms them or their children, in particular with learning abilities. The few atypical stories I heard of this provided WiFi routers to classes with kids with these problems. The students had the kids with the operating routers doing poorly, but the students with them turned off did better.
The routers were empty, just blinking lights and there was no transmitter what-so-ever. So apparently it was more of a behavior problem and less of a WiFi problem. SO I'VE HEARD, not seen the study. But: there are thousands of WiFi router access points in businesses -- that's what a "HotSpot" is, a broadcasting router. Just for funzies, install something like WIGLE and drive around your neighborhood or city. This will show you all of the EXISTING access points right now and their locations. You're being bombarded every second by every single one of them as you pass by.
Now, we're talking about the electromagnet spectrum here. That's radio, the heat that comes from a fire, light from stars, InfraRed (below red, some handheld remotes use that), UltraViolet (I think some laser discs use this), higher energy light can we can see, X-rays, etc. But NOT electron or proton radiation though -- a nuclear power plant does something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
If you walk around with a AM/FM radio in your hand, it can receive signals. That's radiation, it's emitted from the stations transmission towers probably high up on a mountain 40 miles away. Same for TV broadcast signals -- it's the EXACT SAME THING but they carry picture information as well as audio. it's the same for 60 Hz power IN YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW. You get power from your outlet, THEY get power from the outside wires. In particular though, your house contains wires that connect the outlets to the outside box and all of THOSE wires are transmitting power to and thru you RIGHT NOW. (No, really. Not a lot, and you get to play with the inverse square law, but it's there.) If you sit right by a power outlet you're putting microamps and microvolts of power thru your body. (Maybe pico-units, dunno.) If you're under an warm electronic blanket you're literally covered with them. it's warm because of power, and your power is 60Hz, and you just snuggled right up to them.
If you want to see something amazing, buy and hook up a cheap crystal radio - you can hear AM stations through your earpiece with absolutely no power what-so-ever. (So how does it work? Resonance, and the face that ALL of the power to operate it comes from the AM transmitter source There's so much power involved -- and it takes so little to run an earpiece -- that this works.)
So let's NOT pretend that not hooking up a WiFi is going to somehow save you "from the waves", they're already around you. Unless you literally live in the middle of the plains of Texas or Wyoming they're already around you this very instant.
Now what's important in all this is: distance, frequency, and power. Think of popcorn going off on a stove. The closer you are to the kitchen, the louder the kernels popping appear. But you can be completely across the house and still be deafened if I replace that stove shoot a cannon. The emitted power drops off by distance -- the further away you are the less power is received and the "softer" the signal is. That's why radio stations are 1,000,000 watt stations and home transmitters are 5 watt stations -- if you want to get a signal "over there" and you can't do anything about the distance, you've got to increase the power (aka volume.)
Besides power (the UMMPH) and distance (near vs far), there's also frequency (how fast). In WiFi, there's 2.4GHz and 5GHz, in AM radio it's 590KHz to 1600KHz, in FM radio there's 88.1Mhz to 104Mhz. The 900Mhz band is also reserved for consumer use.) The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) in the US regulates who can use WHAT frequencies and HOW MUCH power they can use. Radio and TV station can use KWatts or MWatts, you're router is going to use milli-watts. Look me up here, I think it's around 40 mW is the most they're legally permitted to transmit. That's so YOU don't interfere with your NEIGHBOR. Your microwave, when it's operating, usually transmits on 2.4MHz; that's why some people's WiFi goes down when they're cooking. Interference. Really.
Way back to your original point, I presume you're worried about potential health hazards from WiFi. It was released as a commercial standard back in 1997 so we've got 20 years of actual in-use statistics over it and not just lab results. If it were actually THAT much of a hazard I'm sure we'd be hearing lawyers on TV trying to gather clients for a class-action lawsuit. I hadn't heard of any upcoming, but then again I skip commercials.
Remember my original crude joke way back? Well I was actually partly serious -- I don't think anyone has done any studies of someone with a continually powered 1 Watt transmitter literally inside of them. I don't know of any but I'm SURE people have multiple studies next-best things of rats and such living by high-powered transmitters with few complications. But: you are right to ask questions and right to question and complain about anything I've said above. And the "if all of your friends jumped off a cliff, would you jump too" line goes as well, just because everyone ELSE is doing it doesn't make it safe or harmless. But because you can: install and test a WiFi band tester on your phone. If you live in an apartment you're probably already BEING bombarded with Access Point Routers right this very second. So if you decide the answer is "NO, EVIL, not for ME" then you'll also have to move to get away from them as well.
I don't know of ANY studies ANYwhere showing that WiFi is harmful. ("But just like Big Tobacco, Big Wireless is out canceling those studies" I hear some people say. Fine, may be true -- but where's the much-higher-than-normal cancer rate for WiFi-only people that doctors are reporting on? Maybe it REALLY IS there -- but no one's seen it yet, and there are people trying to prove X is harmful or Y causes cancer.)
Personally, I'd be much more worried (and I'm not worried about this either) about holding a phone, a powered radiation-broadcasting transmitter, RIGHT against your skull while you talk. Big TeleCom says there's nothing to worry about -- they don't want their customers dying off, but I've heard of a few unsubstantiated studies about "cellphones cause cancer" I don't think any of them are true, but I'd be much more worried about that than "Death by Router Access Point across the room."
So: Wha'cha think? Make sense? Too long? Too rambling? Is my cat sleeping on the keyboard again?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wigle.wigleandroid
>Open source network observation, positioning, and display client from the world's largest queryable database of wireless networks. Can be used for site-survey, security analysis, and competition with your friends. Collect networks for personal research or upload to https://wigle.net.
Have you searched F-Driod also? I think there are some on F-Driod.(eg. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.wigle.wigleandroid/) same app on gstore(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.wigle.wigleandroid&hl=en)
I'd say more that Google doesn't like the competition.
The wifi scans could be used for using a mapping of where one is without using Google's services.
A question for those using Marshmallow: does the wifi list of networks come up when one goes "into" Wifi within settings? And is, at that time, location service turned off? Or is location service automatically coming on when such a display occurs?
(I don't use bluetooth, for the most part.)
Wigle will do this.