Tech ping
Sounds like they were logged into their Facebook accounts and he just followed the traffic to their pages and noted the info. He probably just used a network monitoring tool to do it. There are plenty of them out there. Some get pretty expensive tho...
BTTT
“Wouter” is a cool name.
>>We took a hacker to a café and, in 20 minutes, he knew where everyone else was born, what schools they attended, and the last five things they googled.<<
My birthplace and schools are no where on my laptop nor on the interwebz. I keep saying only a fool puts any personal data on FB. This reaffirms that.
Likewise I don’t use Google, I use StartPage.
The old “Wifi Spoof” is one of the oldest hacks. But people still fall for it.
I lay all of this at the feet of Microsoft. In their zeal to catch and destroy Netscape, they eschewed securing their software architecture and how it could have secured the hardware. By the late 90s they were irrevocably committed and couldn’t go back and secure everything.
It is a long and detailed article that conveys no useful information aside from wi-fi use is highly risky, unless.......
Unless what, what security measures?
On the rare occasion I use a WiFi hotspot I didn’t set up myself, I open a VPN connection before doing anything.
I have OpenVPN clients on all of our phones, tablets, and laptops.
I am glad, based on this article, that I do not browse the web in cafes. And it gives good reason to make sure that I have VPN.