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Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location)

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From Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
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Subject Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location)
Date Sun, 27 Oct 2024 20:19:11 +0000
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Jeff Liebermann wrote:

> I know nothing about spoofing a wi-fi
> generated location on an Android phone.

If GPS is off, and the phone is having to do coarse location via wifi, 
it checks what visible SSIDs and signal strengths it can see, does an 
API call on a google database which returns a location ... that's how it 
works normally ... to fake a location you'd have to poison their 
database adding fake SSIDs and removing real ones ... basically a 
non-starter that way.

However there is reference to mock location support in the "hidden" 
developer options, basically an API to feed fake co-ordinates from an 
app to the phone

<https://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/LocationManager#setTestProviderLocation(java.lang.String,%20android.location.Location)>

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Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-26 05:47 +0000
  Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-10-26 09:35 +0100
    Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-26 14:28 +0000
  Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-10-26 10:27 -0500
    Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-26 21:28 +0000
      Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-10-26 21:06 -0500
        Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-27 04:22 +0000
        Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-10-27 09:25 +0000
          Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-27 13:16 +0000
            Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-10-27 15:23 +0000
            Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-10-27 15:33 +0000
            Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2024-10-27 12:02 -0700
              Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-10-27 20:19 +0000
                Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-27 21:45 +0000
                Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-10-28 09:11 +0000
                Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-28 15:00 +0000
                Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-10-28 15:45 +0000
                Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-29 01:44 +0000
              Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-27 22:34 +0000
                Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-10-28 09:08 +0000
                Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-30 14:43 +0000
          Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-10-27 11:10 -0500
  Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-29 02:39 +0000
    Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2024-10-29 10:17 -0700
      Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-10-30 11:39 +0100
        Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-10-30 13:55 +0000
          Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-10-31 20:36 +0100
        Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2024-10-30 11:06 -0700
  Re: Was Google Location Accuracy (now is How to Spoof Wi-Fi Location) Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2024-10-29 16:46 +0100

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