Made an account for this purpose, pay it no mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pepperax
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Made an account for this purpose, pay it no mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pepperax
And since when is publicly broadcast SSIDs are anyone's private data?
It's very unfortunate that zealots and hateful people are increasingly finding a home on HN.
They are mapping public WiFi APs, public data, it's well within their right and that of other to do so. Offering an opt-out is just going over and beyond to appease the stubbornly misinformed.
It's some sort of regression and a patch is already in review: https://codereview.chromium.org/178003011/
Stop karma whoring with this irresponsible shit.
Don't submit a direct link that crashes the whole browsers instead post a communication explaining the risks (also stop upvoting this!). It is also irresponsible since Google has a well publicized framework that enables responsible disclosure that this should have gone through first.