How to Use an ESP8266 Beacon Spammer to Track Smartphone Users

Smartphones and laptops are constantly sending Wi-Fi radio signals, and many of these signals can be used to track us. In this guide, we'll program a cheap IoT device in Arduino to create hundreds of fake networks with common names; This will cause nearby devices to reveal their real trackable MAC address, and it can even let an attacker take over the phone's data connection with no warning. Privacy is harder and harder to enjoy when your smartphone is constantly recording, transmitting, and storing information about you, but many people don't know that their smartphone is broadcasting... more

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