Google Search Convicts Hacker

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.'

Comments

MAC Address Filtering...

[e4g4]

...is not a bloody security feature. This is why people who actually want to secure a wireless network use some combination of Radius and VPNs...

Faulty Article Title

[JasonKChapman]

Kudos on the post's headline being more accurate than TFA's headline.

The article's headline says: "Google searches nab wireless hacker," but the article actually says:

Wireless hacker pleads guilty when his Google searches are used as evidence against him.

That may seem like simple semantics, but it's actually a pretty big difference.