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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!news.gegeweb.eu!gegeweb.org!.POSTED.133-175-174-202.west.ap.gmo-isp.jp!not-for-mail From: Enrico Papaloma Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: home screen icon to connect to wi-fi network Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:11:52 +0200 Organization: Gegeweb News Server Message-ID: References: <464sl25fw0ya.dlg@v.nguard.lh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 04:11:53 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.gegeweb.eu; posting-account="adibella@usenet.local"; posting-host="133-175-174-202.west.ap.gmo-isp.jp:133.175.174.202"; logging-data="84433"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@gegeweb.eu" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.1?Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Cancel-Lock: sha256:Ss0SVBRme798hYHCvvpge01DpmiI6nCXpuzmrSwOGcI= Bytes: 3120 Lines: 35 On 9/22/2024 8:29 AM, Chris wrote: >> Worse, if you have more than one home access point, your phone broadcast >> the unique 96-character BSSID of every one of your home access points. > > Your phone will broadcast *all* WAPs that you've ever connected to (and not > removed). There's no way for the shop - even if they cared - to identify > which WAP is your home one. Even if they had a global database look-up of > all BSSIDs and geographical addresses. With the exception of if you only > ever connect to a single WAP which is your home. These are all valid points, as networking isn't something we can guess at. Everything depends on how we set up our home router & how we set up our phone, where mine isn't likely set up like yours is set up - but that's because I know that every phone that passes by most houses is uploading its BSSID & GPS location (among other things) to Google's public database. That's how most people set up their home routers (by default). Note that upload to Google's servers by every phone passing most homes happens even if people append "_nomap" to the home router SSID (but let's not go there as that just adds another level of unintuitive complexity). The fact is most Android phones are set up, by default, to upload to Google's public databases every BSSID (with GPS location) that it sees. So we can safely assume your unique BSSID & GPS location is already easily accessible by any person who knows how to access that public database. And, we can just as safely assume that my unique BSSID is NOT in that db. Do we agree on that as a basic starting point. a. Your unique BSSID is in the public database as is your GPS location. b. Mine is not. That's just a basic starting point, but do we at least agree on that yet?