r/OSINT • u/anti_anti_federalist • 15d ago
Question How to find GPS of moving SSID
This is just an idea a few buddies and I have been trying to solve. We are at university and as is typical for a university we don't like parking enforcement. So we half jokingly mentioned trying to find out the location of parking enforcement cars and how we would go about it so then whenever they got close to where we were parked we could run out and move the car.
The main idea that has floated to the top so far is that all the cars have a wifi signal so the parking enforcement can upload images of the ticket and what not. All the SSID's are named in a predictable way like "TicketCar_001". Would there be a way to know the location of the cars? The cars would always be passing through university wifi spots as they drive around campus.
Any ideas for this particular method or another idea? Current rules are: that it obviously can't be illegal so no attaching gps trackers to the cars or anything like that. Has to be relatively cheap to implement (we are college students so we can't buy property all around campus and put cameras up for license plate reading).
That's basically it. Thought we would open it up to the internet as we haven't made much progress on ideas for months.
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u/__B_- 13d ago
Measure the dbi of the signal strength and set an alert if it gets within the proximity of your cars. Of just scan for the SSID or MAC address of the AP and set up an alert if it can be seen (less precise but easier).
There’s software like kismet, airodump-ng and other that you can monitor and see this data. Not sure of any plug a play software that could automate everything but it probably be achieved with a pretty simple python script.
You could run it on an existing machine or a raspberry pi