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On 29/08/2013 08:25, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
21:34:21 on Wed, 28 Aug 2013, John Rumm
remarked:
We are talking about someone remote working out you location. They
don't have access to the SSID or MAC address of the wifi router you
are using, hence they can't use it even if they had all of google's
database.


An app just needs to use:

http://developer.android.com/referen.../WifiInfo.html


Indeed - but an "app" is not a web page being rendered in a browser.


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John.

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