acheong08/apple-corelocation-experiments
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Research dump on how IOS Location Services work
10 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2024-05-27 · latest 2026-07-16
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…by Apple? https://www.cs.umd.edu/~dml/papers/wifi-surveillance-sp24.pd... And implementation https://github.com/acheong08/apple-corelocation-experiments
comment by yogorenapan · 2026-07-16 · in Iran exploited mobile flaws to locate U.S. troops in the Middle East -
…GrapheneOS/platform_packages_apps_GmsComp... [2] https://grapheneos.org/features#network-location [3] https://github.com/acheong08/apple-corelocation-experiments
comment by Andromxda · 2026-03-03 · in Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS -
…it works across all phones. I know that's how Apple gets their location services database at least. https://github.com/acheong08/apple-corelocation-experiments
comment by _k2vp · 2026-01-30 · in Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time? -
…the source somewhere at some point but my git server got corrupted and I haven't gone and fixed it. https://github.com/acheong08/apple-corelocation-experiments/... I wonder if AI is good enough to vibe code my horrible hacks into a full…
comment by _k2vp · 2025-12-20 · in Charles Proxy -
https://github.com/acheong08/apple-corelocation-experiments I worked on this a while back in parallel. You can dump Apple's entire database in ~2 weeks. Around 3 billion records including China. You can compress it down to only a few gigs…
comment by acheong08 · 2025-03-07 · in GrapheneOS Adds Custom Private Network Location Feature -
…You can find all the BSSIDs in one area via the tile API or straight up dump the whole thing. https://github.com/acheong08/apple-corelocation-experiments https://codeberg.org/joelkoen/wtfps/ With this you can build your own MLS using…
comment by acheong08 · 2024-10-08 · in Wigle.net: All the networks, found by everyone -
…Their API is unauthenticated and not rate limited either. Can be used for both APs and cell towers: https://github.com/acheong08/apple-corelocation-experiments
comment by _k2vp · 2024-07-07 · in Show HN: BeaconDB – An Alternative to Mozilla Location Services -
…how tile keys might work, please let me know (either here or in an issue). A small data sample: https://github.com/acheong08/apple-corelocation-experiments/... Thank you. Edit: I was initially planning on showing this way later but I can’t…
comment by _k2vp · 2024-05-29 · in Show HN: A deeper dive into Apple's WI-FI geolocation service -
I’ve been experimenting with this over the past few days: https://github.com/acheong08/apple-corelocation-experiments Found some interesting things and still working on recording more MITM from my iPhone to see what else is sent.
comment by _k2vp · 2024-05-27 · in Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positioning systems