Re: The "nomap" Network Identifier Suffix

Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com> Wed, 27 November 2013 14:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: The "nomap" Network Identifier Suffix
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On Nov 26, 2013, at 11:52 PM, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> And it has the same problem as do-not-track, there's no way to tell
> whether people you don't trust are following it.

I thought the point was for it to advise network geolocation survey bots that the hotspot with this ssid is mobile and can't be used for geolocation.