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Google Search Convicts Hacker

Posted by Zonk on from the scroooooood dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google search terms have helped convict a wireless hacker. The queries the hacker performed were introduced into evidence at court, where Matthew Schuster was charged with disrupting his former employer's wireless network and imitating other users' MAC addresses to obtain access. From the article: 'Court documents are ambiguous and don't reveal how the FBI discovered his search terms. That could have happened in one of three ways: an analysis of his browser's history and cache; an Alpha employee monitoring the company's wireless connection; or a subpoena to Google from the police for search terms tied to his Internet address or cookie. Google has confirmed that it can provide search terms if given an Internet address or Web cookie, but has steadfastly refused to say how often such requests arrive.'

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  1. AOL by celardore · · Score: 5, Funny
    Google has confirmed that it can provide search terms if given an Internet address or Web cookie, but has steadfastly refused to say how often such requests arrive. (Microsoft, on the other hand, told us that it has never received such queries for MSN Search, and AOL says it could not provide the information if asked.)

    No, they'll just give it all away anyway.
  2. Re:Well... by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes! You get it. Now you are one of us. (chanting) One of us! One of us!

    --
    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  3. Perhaps... by torrentami · · Score: 2, Funny

    instead of searching for: "how to broadcast interference over wifi 2.4 GHZ," "interference over wifi 2.4 Ghz," "wireless networks 2.4 interference," and "make device interfere wireless network." he should have first searched for: "how to surf anonymously," "how to delete my browser data," and "how to shower without dropping your soap."