[clug] [OT] Broadband clangers

[Stephen Walsh]

  On 08/18/2010 12:08 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> And hasn't someone worked out a way of telling when no-one is home and 
> thus it's safe to rob them using their foursquare + twitter information?
Far simpler would be to combine foursquare with the talk from the 
blackhat conference about using your router's MAC address to geo-locate 
your home connection to within 9 metres;

http://blogs.computerworld.com/16663/hack_pinpoints_where_you_live_how_i_met_your_girlfriend

" In a demonstration of the attack which he called XXXSS, Kamkar showed 
just how simple stalking can be. The first step is to lure the victim to 
click the attacker's link. Once the victim lands on the baited website, 
Kamkar showed how to trick and manipulate Google into revealing her 
location.

After she visited the malicious site, he could impersonate her by making 
his PC seem like her PC requesting the information. Using JavaScript to 
remotely scan for her router type and her MAC address, he then utilized 
Google Street View data to discover the location of her router. He was 
accurate within 30 feet."