Hacker News Reader

Now the question: can you spoof your location? Say you are an admin on your system (for instance you run a Linux distro), can you make your OS return the same list of SSID/BSSIDs as your friend who is in the classroom (or as you recorded the day before) to pretend you are there?

Would be a fun experiment, and a nice follow-up post :-).

View on HN

https://github.com/adamhrv/skylift but doesn’t use the OS, it broadcasts the necessary beacons with ESP8266 / ESP32 hardware.

Nice! Still would be cool to do it right from the computer.

How come this project needs multiple Skylift devices to work best?

Since wifi antennas are generally not directional, shouldn't one Skylift device be able to broadcast each wifi beacon frame with a different transmission power?

I've experienced this unintentionally when I've moved and taken my access point with me. Fresh after moving in, I'll pull out my phone and it'll tell me I'm still at my old house's location, because its using the proximity to my wifi AP's BSSID to determine that. Waited another 30 seconds and it corrected itself.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com