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Google Street View Wi-Fi Data Includes Passwords, Email Content

Posted by Soulskill on from the top-of-the-line-pr-nightmare dept.

snydeq writes "The French National Commission on Computing and Liberty has found passwords and email messages among the Street View Wi-Fi data Google intercepted, InfoWorld reports. The data protection authority has been investigating Google's recording of traffic carried over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks. Google has said it collected only 'fragments' of personal web traffic as it passed by because its Wi-Fi equipment automatically changes channels five times a second. With Wi-Fi networks operating at up to 54Mbps, however, those 'fragments' may have been more than that. 'We can already state that [...] Google did indeed record email access passwords [and] extracts of the content of email messages,' CNIL said."

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  1. How could I have possibly by beschra · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    gotten first post on this subject? Maybe every one else is RFTA?

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    It is unwise to ascribe motive
    1. Re:How could I have possibly by beschra · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      gotten first post on this subject? Maybe every one else is RFTA?

      Never mind.

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      It is unwise to ascribe motive
    2. Re:How could I have possibly by linhares · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." --Robert Francis Kennedy

    3. Re:How could I have possibly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." --Robert Francis Kennedy

      "Only those who have nothing to say claim 'first post'." --Anonymous Coward

  2. OT, please feel to mod down by maxwells_deamon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where did you get your Sig or did you come up with it? I would like to make/have a t-shirt with that on it but I do not want to steal a quote from someone.

    Thanks