Rui CarmoA company that is trying to enhance location services by keeping track of Wi-Fi hotspots, a technique that has its downsides.
For some reason, Apple preferred to do without a GPS chip and integrate their service onto the iPod Touch and iPhone in the first hardware revisions.
| Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 10 | Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address | Several examples on how to invoke their public API |
| Apr 16 | Researchers meddle with iPhone/iTouch Skyhook location tech | Wherein we confirm our expectations. |
Here’s a shell one-liner from one of the links above:
MYMAC=AABBCCDDEEFF && curl —header "Content-Type: text/xml" \
—data "<?xml version=‘1.0’?><LocationRQ xmlns=‘http://skyhookwireless.com/wps/2005’ version=‘2.6’ street-address-lookup=‘full’><authentication version=‘2.0’><simple><username>beta</username><realm>js.loki.com</realm></simple></authentication><access-point><mac>$MYMAC</mac><signal-strength>-50</signal-strength></access-point></LocationRQ>" \
https://api.skyhookwireless.com/wps2/location