(Script to) Locate Any WiFi Router By Its MAC Address
aaron posted in wifi on September 12th, 2008
I saw a slashdot post earlier today about a not-so-secret API from SkyHook Wireless to Locate Any WiFi Router By Its MAC Address. I thought this was pretty cool and useful, so I wrote up a quick python hack/script that would use the API, and I thought that I’d add this as a wicrawl plug-in shortly. It takes the BSSID as an input, and outputs all of the information it finds, and also can output a google earth KML file to import the location.
I found the information amazingly and scarily accurate so far. When I check for my local Access Point it gives me my physical address (in addition to the coordinates) within two street numbers.
Here’s some anonymized output from the script:
./get-coordinates-from-bssid.py 00:11:22:33:aa:c6 ~/tmp/output.kml [*] City: Boston [*] Country: United States [*] Address: Fancy Pants Rd [*] Longitude: -70.17905 [*] County: Middlesex [*] State: Massachusetts [*] Output KML File: /Users/aaronp/tmp/output.kml [*] Street Number: 1337 [*] Postal Code: 02138 [*] Latitude: 40.3823964 [*] Finished..
Let me know if you find it in any way useful. I would guess though now that it’s been slashdot’d that the service will likely change as soon as people really start using it. Hopefully not though, 
September 15th, 2008 at 11:02 am
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September 16th, 2008 at 11:02 am
[...] a street address) given a BSSID (MAC address of a WiFi network). I stumbled on to a post on Midnight Research Labs in which they’ve provided a python script that you can use to access this [...]
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