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WiGLE.net @wiglenet.bsky.social · 9d

it seems so? they also told us our "company" wouldn't be around much longer once they published the screenshots of our emails and lack of response to their IRC messages, which... sure, maybe, but hey it's been a good 24 year run!

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WiGLE.net @wiglenet.bsky.social · 9d

them: "I'm going to ruin WiGLE.net because of the terrible customer service I got"

us: "Sir, this isn't even an Arby's, it's a hobby project and a community, and you're very much not welcome."

WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping

Maps and database of 802.11 wireless networks, with statistics, submitted by wardrivers, netstumblers, and net huggers.

WiGLE.net

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pejacoby @pejacoby.bsky.social · 11d

Who broke the 7,000,000 mark at #9 on the big board?

Of course it’s @dustinfinn.bsky.social

Impressive all around.

#allTheWifi #alwaysBeWardriving #wardrive @wiglenet.bsky.social

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WiGLE.net @wiglenet.bsky.social · 12d

Just “unique observations”

If you’re the sort of person who routinely uploads the same data, this number will be low vs total (and we ignore duplicate observations)

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pejacoby @pejacoby.bsky.social · 16d

Secret cache released! Two months of my daughter’s drives including 35,000 new APs for the bands recent tour.

Even jumped ahead @lozan.ing again 😎

#allTheWifi @wiglenet.bsky.social #wardrive

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WiGLE.net @wiglenet.bsky.social · 20d

Sorry, we don’t have a demo key at this time, but we’ll consider it for a future feature!

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Skaarg @skaarg.bsky.social · 28d

Not even into VCFMW yet and saw this amazing hat courtesy of @hardhat.rocks! Very awesome!

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27d

Just because CSS don't appear to be used to spy on protests in the US right now doesn't mean that is true everywhere. We are interested in getting Rayhunter data from every country to help us understand the global use of CSS and to refine our signatures. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Rayhunter: What We Have Found So Far

Rayhunter is a program that runs on a variety of mobile hotspots and watches for cell-site simulators—a tool police use to locate or identify people's cell phones, also known as IMSI catchers or

www.eff.org

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WiGLE.net @wiglenet.bsky.social · 29d

Yup, DDoS is back.

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WiGLE.net @wiglenet.bsky.social · Sep 7

Oh man, one more year and there’s been a quarter-century of WiGLE.

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MrBill @realmrbill.bsky.social · Sep 7

Happy birthday @wiglenet.bsky.social ! 🎂
Thank you for all you do. 24 years is a long time!

a person is covering their face with their hands and says `` happy fantastic birthday ! ''

ALT: a person is covering their face with their hands and says `` happy fantastic birthday ! ''

media.tenor.com

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usrbinkat @usrbinkat.io · Aug 28

What keeps me up at night 🌉

When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s data

Government agencies are contracting with Palantir to correlate disparate pieces of data, promising efficiency but raising civil liberties concerns.

theconversation.com

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pejacoby @pejacoby.bsky.social · Aug 19

Will ascend tall volcanos for #allTheWifi and ride down them on a bicycle!

5G coverage is darn good on the road to and from Haleakalā. WiFi, a bit spotty. Helmet, a bit warm… Brakes, totally solid!

#warBike #wardrive @wiglenet.bsky.social

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · Aug 15

It finally happened to me

Screenshot of a Mastodon thread. Someone says:

"@mjg59 "Secure" (restricted) boot = Your computer will only boot things microsoft decided to, And you can't modify them."

I reply:

"? This is demonstrably not true"

They reply

"Are you sure?" and link to the Secure Boot subsection of the Wikipedia article on UEFI

I reply:

"You might want to compare my name to the name associated with the citations there"

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WiGLE.net @wiglenet.bsky.social · Aug 16

our ostensible harvesters continue to think they're getting something? at some point we should move to limit the hosting costs, but they're just so damn sad.

literally look at it on a map, kids.

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WiGLE.net @wiglenet.bsky.social · Aug 14

Politely, that’s not Paris pictured.

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AL Thomas @alant2.bsky.social · Aug 13

That’s San Francisco

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Aug 13

“GeoSpy has proven to not be very accurate in my experience & this tool could lead to false accusations and further harassment of innocent people,” EFF’s @cooperq.com warned @404media.co. “It’s also a powerful tool for stalking or other misuse by police.”

LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy’, an AI Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds

Emails obtained by 404 Media show the LAPD was interested in GeoSpy, an AI tool that can quickly figure out where a photo was taken.

www.404media.co

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Aug 11

New Sunday Times profile in which I succeed, like a fencer in a 2hr marathon match, in fending off Qs abt my personal life & consistently turning focus back to my work & ideas.

(Contra the interviewer's claim, many ppl do know me! They're called friends, & you know who you are ❤️)

archive.is/BtZD0

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LukHash @lukhash.bsky.social · Aug 10

Only real ones know what inserting a disk felt like 😏💾✨ New song out now: fanlink.tv/patch

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WiGLE.net @wiglenet.bsky.social · Aug 10

“Hey AI: write me a python script to get all the data in WiGLE”

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WiGLE.net @wiglenet.bsky.social · Aug 10

If you vibe-code an API integration with WiGLE, please at least read the API docs and compare them to what you're sending.

api.wigle.net/swagger

spamming the API with invalid requests is a great way to get banned.

WiGLE API Interactive

api.wigle.net

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WiGLE.net @wiglenet.bsky.social · Aug 8

We often wonder: do kneecaps get broken when someone finds out? Inexplicable defenestrations?

WiGLE.net @wiglenet.bsky.social · Aug 7

Every <n> months where <n> varies between 9 and 20, someone gets a bright idea to violate the EULA and try to bulk harvest WiGLE data. It never works out for them.

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