Spy Alert - Google!
By skysuccess
@skysuccess (8857)
Singapore
May 15, 2010 2:19am CST
Google has always been pointing fingers starting with the recent China episode where it accuses her of espionage and inflexible dictatorship of implementing online censorship.
Google always insisted it was doing nothing wrong, never admits to invading anyone's privacy or been incompetent or negligent!
Well, guess what? Google is a SPY after all.
Now, I am sure a lot of you might well be aware that Google had been deploying their squadron of Street View cars to capture both imagery and 3D geometry for Google Maps and data about Wi-Fi networks that it uses in its geolocation-enabled apps.
Now, everyone did not have any reservations or minded that these cars are capturing data about Wi-Fi networks until the German government demanded that Google examine its systems and gathered data extensively.
And it discovered that for the past three years, the squadron of Street View cars have been accidentally using a piece of software that can pick up data being transmitted over non-password-protected networks.
Yes, unbeknown to you, Google just might have your personal data now in their system and thanks to the German government Google is assuring us that it has isolated the data in question while it figures out what to do with it!
Oh, great! Google is isolating the data. Am I going to trust them?
So the moral of this true story is this: PASSWORD PROTECT YOUR WI-FI NETWORK. NOW.
Now, I am sure a lot of you might well be aware that Google had been deploying their squadron of Street View cars to capture both imagery and 3D geometry for Google Maps and data about Wi-Fi networks that it uses in its geolocation-enabled apps.
Now, everyone did not have any reservations or minded that these cars are capturing data about Wi-Fi networks until the German government demanded that Google examine its systems and gathered data extensively.
And it discovered that for the past three years, the squadron of Street View cars have been accidentally using a piece of software that can pick up data being transmitted over non-password-protected networks.
Yes, unbeknown to you, Google just might have your personal data now in their system and thanks to the German government Google is assuring us that it has isolated the data in question while it figures out what to do with it!
Oh, great! Google is isolating the data. Am I going to trust them?
So the moral of this true story is this: PASSWORD PROTECT YOUR WI-FI NETWORK. NOW.No responses
