PDA

View Full Version : An Intentional Mistake: The Anatomy of Google's Wi-Fi Sniffing Debacle - Wired News


wireless
05-02-2012, 11:27 PM
http://forums.calgaryn.com//nt1.ggpht.com/news/tbn/qeqXnWBWvJ_iPM/6.jpg
Wired News (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNE9K_KfpaP6KE0uzbxW1Mnp7k0big&url=http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/)
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />
An Intentional Mistake: The Anatomy of Google's Wi-Fi Sniffing Debacle (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNE9K_KfpaP6KE0uzbxW1Mnp7k0big&url=http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/)
Wired News
By David Kravets Google's public version of events of how it came to secretly intercept Americans' data sent on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers over a two-year period doesn't quite mesh with what the search giant told federal regulators.
Google, Wi-Fi Snooping, and the Ever-Shifting 'Creepy' Line (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGLLAENWMi3WpASfEBGNkMyH53urQ&url=http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-02/google-wi-fi-snooping-and-the-ever-shifting-creepy-line)BusinessWeek
ICO mulls stiffer probe into Google Street View Wi-Fi slurp (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGtbkmdU_zix0CDK5j5NlsbRq6W6A&url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/02/ico_google_street_view/)Register
Google Street View's Wi-Fi Snooping Engineer is Outed (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFwPuG9pskrwt69SAM0UTC90Qsp9w&url=http://www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/?newsid%3D3355326)Macworld UK
InfoWorld (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFLZd22l0-FKq5eGypLHhS4c97EXw&url=http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/googles-wi-fi-spygate-troubles-have-only-just-begun-192257) -Infopackets (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFO3HQeLOY4Y2q4zMQ2D9TNkNYl-A&url=http://www.infopackets.com/news/business/google/2012/20120502_googles_wifi_snooping_more_details_emerge .htm) -Mobile & Apps (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFSnWADP3WJBKwA1rw3Il4fCAx_2Q&url=http://www.mobilenapps.com/articles/1937/20120502/google-wifi-hacker-street-view-data-collection.htm)
all 48 news articles &raquo; (http://news.google.ca/news/more?gl=us&pz=1&ned=ca&ncl=dlS0AcAwjgJAZbM31kiH6mfiZbdzM)



Courtesy of WestNet City Wi-Fi
www.westnet.ca