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Title: Big Brother Google, Caught hacking your wifi!
Post by: eSineM on June 28, 2010, 05:12:18 am

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/06/22/cnet.google.wifi.probe/index.html?hpt=T2

As the google van was driving around taking pictures of houses for google maps.. It was also logging the GPS coordinates of all wifi hot spots encountered, if those hot spots were not secure, google saved as much of the data as it could including private emails, passwords, chat conversations or whatever else may have been going on at the moment.

If I did this, I would be in prison, no questions asked... but Google can do it and make money!

Oh how nice it is to live above the law

Title: Re: Big Brother Google, Caught hacking your wifi!
Post by: FuzzyCottonsocks on June 28, 2010, 07:26:27 am

This is scary.... :o

Title: Re: Big Brother Google, Caught hacking your wifi!
Post by: darklable on June 28, 2010, 09:25:42 am

Wow.. And once again we see that in our "free country" money is truly power. Same with famous people getting special privileges in prison huh? Oh well, we just gotta start locking our wifi spots from now on I guess..

Title: Re: Big Brother Google, Caught hacking your wifi!
Post by: eSineM on June 28, 2010, 08:03:57 pm

It may not be what we think it is

Title: Re: Big Brother Google, Caught hacking your wifi!
Post by: Stealth3si on June 29, 2010, 01:04:07 am

Their google map camera took a picture of my house with my dad in front.

Creepy.

Title: Re: Big Brother Google, Caught hacking your wifi!
Post by: Graeth on June 29, 2010, 07:07:07 pm

Eh, serves people right for being morons.
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