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ryan-c on March 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Your wifi shows me where you live, work and travel

This may be a bug in wpa_supplicant, I'm not sure. I looked at the code, and it seems to be trying to avoid using the SSID in a probe unless this value is set to 1, but the code is structured such that the check needs to be done in many places so one of them may have omitted it. Should be in scan.c.

gkoz on March 18, 2015 [–]

Turns out it's not a bug, it's a feature called Preferred Network Offload. Some useful links can be found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/2u2ww0/dev_wifi...

cesarb on March 18, 2015 | [–]

> Preferred Network Offload

Looks like you found the bug, thanks: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/your-android-device-te...

So it's a bug after all.

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