Comment Free Wi-Fi Tracking Software (Score 3, Informative) 233
The research group I work in used many of the same techquies that this software company uses to create Nibble which also can do positioning using Wifi; http://mmsl.cs.ucla.edu/nibble/. Free. GPL'd source is available too.
Things to note, however, about any 802.11 tracking software it that its accuracy is poor > 5 meters, unless you are using 5 or 6 *simultaneously* accessible access points (it even states this in the Ekahau manual). Tracking software can be thrown off by even seemingly minor enviornmental changes like crowds of people etc. Also some calibration is also required.
Don't worry about this shutting down free access points as it is way harder to do location tracking than it is to set up an encryption system (even really good VPN style encrytion) or a simple MAC address filter.
Mike
Things to note, however, about any 802.11 tracking software it that its accuracy is poor > 5 meters, unless you are using 5 or 6 *simultaneously* accessible access points (it even states this in the Ekahau manual). Tracking software can be thrown off by even seemingly minor enviornmental changes like crowds of people etc. Also some calibration is also required.
Don't worry about this shutting down free access points as it is way harder to do location tracking than it is to set up an encryption system (even really good VPN style encrytion) or a simple MAC address filter.
Mike
