[Cialug] _nomap for wireless networks

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Nov 15, 2011, at 7:02 AM, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:

>> Lame, I don't want to change my ESSID to opt out.  It should be a opt-in
>> sort of thing.  And the ESSID is about the lamest way to do it anyway.
>> Not that there's a decent way to do it.  They really shouldn't be doing
>> it at all.
>> 
> 
> agreed.  I just switched to not broadcasting (which is the easy option), but evidently the itouch 3 makes you reenter your credentials each time you connect


Does Google intentionally exclude networks that don't include an SSID in the beacon frame? I was under the impression that they map by BS MAC, which is available in almost every broadcast frame and (at least theoretically) globally unique.

	Zach

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