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I thought this technology would use the MAC address and SSID, but not the IP address because surely most access points have WPA enabled by default now? And that these find-my-phone apps use data from the phones GPS and 802.11 wireless to build up a cross reference database. Then again, maybe most Americans do not have WPA security enabled?

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