A new open-source project wants to turn stray wireless signals into a pin on a map.
WaveDigger, hosted on GitHub by developer Christian Rowlands, analyzes wireless signal data to work out the physical location a signal is coming from. The project's own description is blunt: dig into the airwaves and find what's behind them. It surfaced on Hacker News, climbing to 47 points and pulling in six comments - modest numbers, but enough to suggest real interest from the networking and security crowd. The GitHub page itself is light on technical detail, so which signal types or location methods it actually supports isn't spelled out in what's public so far.
Turning radio noise into coordinates isn't new. WiGLE has crowdsourced wifi-based location data for years, and cell-tower triangulation is standard kit for investigators. What stands out here is the framing: an apparently accessible, developer-facing tool rather than something locked inside a law-enforcement suite. That lowers the bar for anyone curious about where a signal is coming from, which is handy for chasing down a rogue access point and less handy if you're the one being chased.
Like most dual-use tools, whether WaveDigger ends up as a convenience for network admins or a headache for privacy advocates depends entirely on who picks it up.