Data Engineer In Google Case Is Identified

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 1, 2012 @01:11AM from the under-the-bus dept.

theodp writes "Meet Engineer Doe. A NY Times report has identified Marius Milner as the software engineer at the center of the uproar over a Google project that used Wi-Fi sniffing Google Street View cars to collect e-mail and other personal data from potentially millions of unsuspecting people. Milner, creator of the wardriving software NetStumbler, referred questions to his lawyer. Google declined to comment. A patent search shows the USPTO awarded Google and Milner a patent in June 2011 for protecting Internet users from 'hackers and other ne'er-do-wells [who] may seek to tap into communications on a network.'"

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Re:If you have something that you don't want by X0563511 · 2012-05-01 03:09 · Score: 5, Informative

I don't think you understand how radio works. It's like sound.
Your neighbor blares his stereo? Well, you can hear his music because of that.
You blare your unencrypted data? Well, I can read it.

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