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Interesting. Euclid only works with smartphones, in that it appears to simply sniff MAC addresses, and triangulate them with off-the-shelf wi-fi equipment.

I'm guessing the mall tracking systems are using something on the GSM and CDMA spectra, and are sniffing UDIDs?



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