Google admits wi-fi data collection blunder

[~BD~]

Google has admitted that for the past three years it has wrongly
collected information people have sent over unencrypted wi-fi networks.

The issue came to light after German authorities asked to audit the data
the company's Street View cars gathered as they took photos viewed on
Google maps.

Google said during a review it found it had "been mistakenly collecting
samples of payload data from open networks".

The admission will increase concerns about potential privacy breaches.

These snippets could include parts of an email, text or photograph or
even the website someone may be viewing.

In a blogpost Google said as soon as it became aware of the problem it
grounded its Street View cars from collecting wi-fi information and
segregated the data on its network.

More ........ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8684110.stm

[gumby]

On 15/05/2010 12:42 AM, ~BD~ wrote:
> Google has admitted that for the past three years it has wrongly
> collected information people have sent over unencrypted wi-fi networks.
>
> The issue came to light after German authorities asked to audit the data
> the company's Street View cars gathered as they took photos viewed on
> Google maps.
>
> Google said during a review it found it had "been mistakenly collecting
> samples of payload data from open networks".
>
> The admission will increase concerns about potential privacy breaches.
>
> These snippets could include parts of an email, text or photograph or
> even the website someone may be viewing.
>
> In a blogpost Google said as soon as it became aware of the problem it
> grounded its Street View cars from collecting wi-fi information and
> segregated the data on its network.
>
> More ........ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8684110.stm
>
>

Maybe google really was funded by USA gov. SS as some people claim.

[David H. Lipman]

From: "gumby" <gumby@here.com>

| Maybe google really was funded by USA gov. SS as some people claim.

No !

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

[Bullwinkle]

Lets us look at your crew:

1.A socialist leach and non producer

2. A self proclaimed web master who runs an infected IE6
on a production machine and is a thief.

3. A crippled bird, wanna be.

4. A self proclaimed illegal drug user.

and then there is you, a Thief, Spammer, Phiser and Liar First Class..

Passed by you last week and you look aweful sick.

Did you catch some gay sickness or did your last operation
go bad?

As for google if you use them you deserve what you get.


"~BD~" <BoaterDave@nospam~@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
news:hsljio$3va$1@news.eternal-september.org...

[Dustin Cook]

"~BD~" <BoaterDave@nospam~@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in news:hsljio$3va$1
@news.eternal-september.org:

> Google has admitted that for the past three years it has wrongly
> collected information people have sent over unencrypted wi-fi networks.

I wonder how it accidently collected that information.. short of
accessing the networks and browsing around... or packet sniffing?

> Google said during a review it found it had "been mistakenly collecting
> samples of payload data from open networks".

I'd really like to know how that accidently happens...

> The admission will increase concerns about potential privacy breaches.
>
> These snippets could include parts of an email, text or photograph or
> even the website someone may be viewing.

Sounds like packet sniffing was taking place. I'm unsure how it could
have been "accidental" tho.

> In a blogpost Google said as soon as it became aware of the problem it
> grounded its Street View cars from collecting wi-fi information and
> segregated the data on its network.

Sounds like Google knew about it, and was planning to continue doing it,
but someone in Germany screwed up their plans...



--
"Hrrngh! Someday I'm going to hurl this...er...roll this...hrrngh.. nudge
this boulder right down a cliff." - Goblin Warrior

[Dustin Cook]

"Bullwinkle" <BDTJ@loa.mo> wrote in news:4bef1b97@news.x-privat.org:

> Lets us look at your crew:
>
> 1.A socialist leach and non producer
>
> 2. A self proclaimed web master who runs an infected IE6
> on a production machine and is a thief.
>
> 3. A crippled bird, wanna be.
>
> 4. A self proclaimed illegal drug user.

I wear the interest in Pot with Pride, thanks. You may stick the "illegal"
aspect squarely straight up your ass, along with your other mental
deficient thoughts, sir. Do you drink sir? Did you know it was illegal for
the same nonsense reasons pot was made illegal? thanks to that stupid move
by the government and ignorant ****s like you, we created (thanks to your
kind, not mine) the mafia; gangsters, the mob..

Keep that in mind next time you critize someone for doing something
"illegal.".




--
"Hrrngh! Someday I'm going to hurl this...er...roll this...hrrngh.. nudge
this boulder right down a cliff." - Goblin Warrior

[PajaP]

On Sat, 15 May 2010 22:12:40 GMT, Dustin Cook
<bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote:

>I wear the interest in Pot with Pride

Now we know what fried your brain.

[David Kaye]

Dustin Cook <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>I'd really like to know how that accidently happens...

Especially when Google prides themselves on hiring only the best programmers.
Google is known to suck up all the comp-sci PhDs available. And they
inadvertantly collected data from nearby wi-fi hotspots? Google is the
Antichrist, plain and simple.

[Bullwinkle]

Do not change the subject.

Illegal drugs is what you self confessed to.

You have no honor or credibility now.




"Dustin Cook" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9D79B950E7090HHI2948AJD832@69.16.185.247.. .
"Bullwinkle" <BDTJ@loa.mo> wrote in news:4bef1b97@news.x-privat.org:

> Lets us look at your crew:
>
> 1.A socialist leach and non producer
>
> 2. A self proclaimed web master who runs an infected IE6
> on a production machine and is a thief.
>
> 3. A crippled bird, wanna be.
>
> 4. A self proclaimed illegal drug user.

I wear the interest in Pot with Pride, thanks. You may stick the "illegal"
aspect squarely straight up your ass, along with your other mental
deficient thoughts, sir. Do you drink sir? Did you know it was illegal for
the same nonsense reasons pot was made illegal? thanks to that stupid move
by the government and ignorant ****s like you, we created (thanks to your
kind, not mine) the mafia; gangsters, the mob..

Keep that in mind next time you critize someone for doing something
"illegal.".




--
"Hrrngh! Someday I'm going to hurl this...er...roll this...hrrngh.. nudge
this boulder right down a cliff." - Goblin Warrior

[\(William Regal\)]

TSK! TSK!

Funny I did not see a name until you spoke up.

For you,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE


"Dustin Cook" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9D79B950E7090HHI2948AJD832@69.16.185.247.. .
"Bullwinkle" <BDTJ@loa.mo> wrote in news:4bef1b97@news.x-privat.org:

> Lets us look at your crew:
>
> 1.A socialist leach and non producer
>
> 2. A self proclaimed web master who runs an infected IE6
> on a production machine and is a thief.
>
> 3. A crippled bird, wanna be.
>
> 4. A self proclaimed illegal drug user.

I wear the interest in Pot with Pride, thanks. You may stick the "illegal"
aspect squarely straight up your ass, along with your other mental
deficient thoughts, sir. Do you drink sir? Did you know it was illegal for
the same nonsense reasons pot was made illegal? thanks to that stupid move
by the government and ignorant ****s like you, we created (thanks to your
kind, not mine) the mafia; gangsters, the mob..

Keep that in mind next time you critize someone for doing something
"illegal.".




--
"Hrrngh! Someday I'm going to hurl this...er...roll this...hrrngh.. nudge
this boulder right down a cliff." - Goblin Warrior