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It's not. I'm super surprised at the lack of understanding by HNers here. It's like folks here haven't heard of wardriving!?

Open databases with 10B+ observations exist: https://wigle.net/

Furthermore, it doesn't matter that these databases exist, because your SSID is hidden behind the location permission API for basically every OS.

So practically speaking, your SSID being public is meaningless.



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