Regurgitator fouling the data pool in my area
I've been noticing old networks that I know have been removed/replaced in my area starting to show last observed dates of 2025-03-08 and 2025-03-09 in my area. It shows up in the search queries but when I click the BSSID to view the observations list there's nothing for that date in there. Also on some, but not all the erroneously reported networks show the grey reception area peaked miles away often to the same spot near the freeway across town.
It seems like something just grabbed a bunch of networks along an area from the website and resubmitted them under a false date, for example BSSID D8:9D:67:93:C5:C0 is one of the worse examples as it also falsely reported encryption making the yellow WPA padlock icon show up in the search list when it was always an open network, and also replaced in 2020 with new hardware and SSID name (I piggyback it frequently so I remember). There's been numerous other networks, a lot of which I found in 2014 that are no longer extant that have also popped back up again with the same March 8/9 last observed dates.
It's making it hard to keep track of which networks are still active or not without having to check the observation pool for each one.
Another example of an almost 10 year dead network and the same random grey area peak to similar off freeway area: 00:02:6F:8C:12:B9
It seems like something just grabbed a bunch of networks along an area from the website and resubmitted them under a false date, for example BSSID D8:9D:67:93:C5:C0 is one of the worse examples as it also falsely reported encryption making the yellow WPA padlock icon show up in the search list when it was always an open network, and also replaced in 2020 with new hardware and SSID name (I piggyback it frequently so I remember). There's been numerous other networks, a lot of which I found in 2014 that are no longer extant that have also popped back up again with the same March 8/9 last observed dates.
It's making it hard to keep track of which networks are still active or not without having to check the observation pool for each one.
Another example of an almost 10 year dead network and the same random grey area peak to similar off freeway area: 00:02:6F:8C:12:B9
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