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Just another idea popped. What if your code doesn't include any bitstream that contains "Starbucks" but has some ML driven mechanism of passively listening to Wifis around the city, noting them and using those names dynamically? Since Starbucks McDonalds etc would (probably) be the highest quantity of signals found your code will be mimicking those names without having a single bit in the code.

What would be the legality of that (as long as the intention is not to attack the public)?



And while you are at it, store the BSSID along with the SSIDs seen to make it practically indistinguishable from the real thing.


IANAL (maybe one will weigh in) but that sounds a lot safer to me.




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