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Connecticut AG to lead probe into Google's Wi-Fi snooping
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Connecticut AG to lead probe into Google's Wi-Fi snooping

article published on 21 June, 2010

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal revealed on Monday that more than 30 U.S. states participated in a conference call over the Google Wi-Fi snooping incident. Google had to admit recently that its Street View cars had intercepted and stored payload data from unencrypted wireless networks in countries all over the world. The data grab was unintentional. Blumenthal is now to ... [ read the full article ]

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scorpNZ
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_ 		21. June 2010 @ 20:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
These pratts told the Gov of NZ all they wanted to do was film houses & map roads & streets i don't recall wifi hot spots being part of the discussion but apparently they wanted to map those as well which is fair enough yet now we find out they mapped houses that had wifi & it looks like they got ip addresses etc..wtf..for what purpose & they call it a mistake..bollocks,it's bad enough satellite images can be used from a comp to get an idea of an area if you wanted to burgle houses & now this bull,i say good job to the @%%^%&^&& that got abused & chased from a suburb last year when residents took exception to their houses being photographed...lol..
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mystic
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_ 		22. June 2010 @ 09:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
the next question is what did they do with the data they mined destroy the ip list and passwords? (both of which they ran more then a code to get more like encryption breaker software ) so now that they commited a crime against the world who will hold them to the letter of the law... and if they distroy the eveidence isnt that a crime also if the go to court then isnt that against the public law to relase the info but dosnt it become public record and now the RIAA can track the ips to a house oh this has so many ways of being bad news for so many and what if they get hacked and all those passwords and personal info gets into the wind for all to see?
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