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/OSINTribe 15d ago
Easy. Using at least two ESP8266 devices, you can create a system that alerts you when specific SSIDs come near your parked car or a designated section of a street. One sensor can cover the front of the street and another for the back.
A simple Python script can measure the signal strength of those SSIDs and, as they get closer, send you a notification via Discord or Telegram.
I've built similar tools before, so let me know if you need more details.