{"id":11113,"date":"2013-09-20T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T14:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11113"},"modified":"2013-09-20T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T14:25:30","slug":"wi-fi-sniffing-lets-researchers-take-social-snapshots-of-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11113","title":{"rendered":"Wi-Fi sniffing lets researchers take social snapshots of crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Wi-Fi client devices can seek a wireless network to connect to through active or passive scanning for &#8216;beacons&#8217; broadcast by access points. Smartphones typically use active scanning, which means they switch on their wireless radio for a brief period to send a probe request and receive information about networks within range. The operating systems of wireless devices can include a preferred network list (PNL), which incorporates some of the SSIDs of Wi-Fi networks the device has previously successfully connected to, and some devices will include this information in their probe requests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techworld.com.au\/article\/526903\/wi-fi_sniffing_lets_researchers_take_social_snapshots_crowds\/\">Wi-Fi sniffing lets researchers take social snapshots of crowds &#8211; Wi-Fi, security, mobility, smartphones &#8211; Security &#8211; Techworld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wi-Fi client devices can seek a wireless network to connect to through active or passive scanning for &#8216;beacons&#8217; broadcast by access points. Smartphones typically use active scanning, which means they switch on their wireless radio for a brief period to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11113\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[1054,78],"class_list":["post-11113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-network-sniffers","tag-wifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11114,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113\/revisions\/11114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}