You want to locate a loved one to make sure it's safe? You wish locate a person without him knowing ?
With so many technologies today, it's easier than ever to locate someone who matters to you. Spying on friends, girlfriend / boyfriend is unfortunately becoming easier and easier.
In this tutorial we will see step by step a script allowing to locate a person easily. The goal is to show you how a simple malicious web page can collect sensitive information about you and your devices.
How to locate a person?
With the help of seeker, which is an open source Python script, you can easily find the location of a person.
seeker uses HTML5, Javascript, JQuery and PHP to retrieve device information and the very precise location of an Internet user.
It is a script that you host on your server or your machine and which allows you to retrieve a location.
This tool automatically generate a fake website to a person, making him believe that he is on a service allowing to find new friends close to him.
Then the service in question asks the target to allow location sharing.
If the target clicks on allow, it is possible to obtain:
- Longitude
- Latitude
- Precision
- Altitude (not always available)
- Direction (only if the person is moving)
- Speed (only if the person is moving)
In addition to location information, we may also obtain device information without any authorization:
- Operating system
- Platform
- Number of CPU cores
- Amount of RAM (approximate)
- Screen resolution
- GPU Info
- Browser name and version
- Public IP address
Note that this tool is for educational use only. illegal use must be avoided.
Typically, if a user accepts the locate authorization, the accuracy of the information received is accurate, to around 30 meters.