If Google knows everyone's MAC addresses they can hax your IP's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's not like they were driving around with aircrack, only collecting data that was freely(though probably unknowingly) broadcasted unencrypted. There was an article on/., a few months ago about a man who wrote a simple script for his laptop to do almost the same thing (all he gathered was the ssid of the ap's) and there wasn't an enormous outcry then. I look forward to seeing the results published, but hopefully not in such a way that google maps will publish the location of unprotected networks.
Don't change naked in your house with the curtains open if you don't want anyone to see.
Way to be crazy farmer, put our little corner of Canada on the map as a laughing stock.
MICROWAVES? THAT MUST BE BAD! IT HAS THE SAME NAME BUT IS NOT REALLY THE SAME THING AS A KITCHEN APPLIANCE!
Wait until he finds out there is cell phone service in the area which has been giving him brain cancer.
Unless it turns out he is right, the tower is built and the crops mutate. Then I for one welcome our stupid overused catchphrase overlords.
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If Google knows everyone's MAC addresses they can hax your IP's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's not like they were driving around with aircrack, only collecting data that was freely(though probably unknowingly) broadcasted unencrypted. There was an article on /., a few months ago about a man who wrote a simple script for his laptop to do almost the same thing (all he gathered was the ssid of the ap's) and there wasn't an enormous outcry then. I look forward to seeing the results published, but hopefully not in such a way that google maps will publish the location of unprotected networks.
Don't change naked in your house with the curtains open if you don't want anyone to see.
Prepare for unforeseen consequences....
Way to be crazy farmer, put our little corner of Canada on the map as a laughing stock. MICROWAVES? THAT MUST BE BAD! IT HAS THE SAME NAME BUT IS NOT REALLY THE SAME THING AS A KITCHEN APPLIANCE! Wait until he finds out there is cell phone service in the area which has been giving him brain cancer. Unless it turns out he is right, the tower is built and the crops mutate. Then I for one welcome our stupid overused catchphrase overlords.