Researchers from the University of Washington came to the conclusion that even a third -party user can monitor people. You can determine the location of the owner of the smartphone using targeted advertising. It is proposed to purchase advertising packages for $ 1000. After the purchase, you only need to “tie” this package to the victim’s device, and then with a high degree of accuracy, you can determine the movement and location of the object with a smartphone.
Target advertising packages capable of tracking the victim’s smartphone are publicly available and are freely selling. With the help of such an advertisement, you can find out what offices and trading institutions the victim, a route to work and any movement around the city attended. An additional option for attackers is to obtain information about the sites on which the owner of the smartphone enters, what he opens up, as well as a lot of related information of a personal nature (political addictions, religion or even the state of health of the victim).
To connect the “Service Services”, the attacker should only find out the Maid smartphone (mobile advertising identifier), stored in the public domain at the victim device. Maid makes it possible to learn about the interests of the user for marketing companies to show targeted targeted advertising. And attackers can determine and track the whereabouts of a person with an accuracy of 8 meters.
Source: Washington.Edu
Researchers from the University of Washington came to the conclusion that even a third -party user can monitor people. You can determine the location of the owner of the smartphone using targeted advertising. It is proposed to purchase advertising packages for $ 1000. After the purchase, you only need to “tie” this package to the victim’s device, and then with a high degree of accuracy, you can determine the movement and location of the object with a smartphone.
Target advertising packages capable of tracking the victim’s smartphone are publicly available and are freely selling. With the help of such an advertisement, you can find out what offices and trading institutions the victim, a route to work and any movement around the city attended. An additional option for attackers is to obtain information about the sites on which the owner of the smartphone enters, what he opens up, as well as a lot of related information of a personal nature (political addictions, religion or even the state of health of the victim).
To connect the “Service Services”, the attacker should only find out the Maid smartphone (mobile advertising identifier), stored in the public domain at the victim device. Maid makes it possible to learn about the interests of the user for marketing companies to show targeted targeted advertising. And attackers can determine and track the whereabouts of a person with an accuracy of 8 meters.
Source: Washington.Edu