WiFi-Aware / Neighbor Awareness Networking

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sat Aug 26 14:26:17 PDT 2017


> I can see some privacy concerns with this stuff.
> I was wondering what you all thought.

https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-aware
https://youtu.be/xwSYPqqhTsQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Alliance#Wi-Fi_Direct
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_marketing
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/15/wifi_alliance_ushers_in_new_era_of_intrusive_apps/
https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/14/wi-fi-aware-aims-to-connect-all-your-devices-instantly/

http://thehackernews.com/2017/08/android-8-oreo.html
https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/
https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/index.html
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/wifi-aware.html

Traditionally, we'd build a decentralized anonymous p2p location
enabled network app for this, potentially filtering or segmenting
millions of nodes around the globe for scaleability by distance
metrics. That's still a much needed app, but they typically design
and operate globally before locally.

WiFi Aware interfaces local before global, specifically within wifi
range. People who... are open to chat, like this or that interest, are
single and looking, have cryptocurrencies to trade, need help, etc.
Further, opensource apps can utilize the WF-A API so you don't
need to use all the closed ad/pay shitware that's about to explode
onto scene. You can seed WF-A app data into the above decentral
app tools. Overall, it's powerful and useful tech.

Privacy is as usual...
- Up to you (or the closedsource shit you foolishly continue to
insist on supporting with your dollars, voice, usage and stupidity).
- Depends on security, design model, options and features
of the entire stack

Also, so long as you have wifi hardware that can tx / rx raw
frames, you could develop your own opensource "wifi-aware"
network protocols in software. Closed WiFi Alliance crap not
needed.

A couple groups were working on opensource wifi firmwares.

And RTL SDR groups are doing wifi completely opensource.


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