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Small Businesses, Secure Your WiFi Networks!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Google, not Government, is Big Brother in this Brave New World
It’s getting close to a year now since Google’s troubles with Street View started. After it revealed that it had, inadvertently it says, collected private WiFi data from open networks, may of the countries involved started investigations.
Last year, Google revealed that its Street View cars, which were equipped with WiFi scanning equipment, mistakenly collected payload data from the networks along with identification data which they were supposed to capture. Among the data, analysis later revealed, there was sensitive material such as entire emails and passwords. Several investigations are still ongoing.
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