Your sensitive Wi-Fi data still in Google’s hands?
Google South Africa collected sensitive personal data without permission – the question remains on whether or not they have deleted the information
Is your Wi-Fi data still in Google’s hands?
Your sensitive Wi-Fi data still in Google’s hands?
Google South Africa collected sensitive personal data without permission – the question remains on whether or not they have deleted the information
Frankly if you run an unsecured wireless network, you deserve to have your data intercepted.
"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out shouting “f#ck, what a ride!"
have to agree with this.Originally Posted by Frikkenator
google is probably the least of your worries.
Do NOT construe anything I type as advice
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Nobody has the right to do this. Imagine the outcry if the perpetrator was the South African Government?
The more I see of Google, the more I think that they are an organisation that we should be very scared of. They are no longer an organisation that does no evil. It manifests itself in this behaviour, what they are doing to Facebook in search rankings and in my case they even turned into a censor board. This because i had an ad campaign for an artist who does nude paintings. They banned the ad because it directed to a page of a nude woman's profile(not even boobs showing) and did not even give an explanation.
The way they are now also promoting their own +1 button to achieve better SEO rankings also stink to high heaves.
Be very scared, BIG BROTHER GOOGLE is lurking and it may not be so farfetched that they could bribe a future president of America because of some search keywords he typed in.
If you are playing with sensitive data, use encryption. If you don't know how, don't play with sensitive data!
Once again, if you like your privacy don't live in a glass house. Also if you did live in a glass house and someone walked pass, and saw your beautiful wive as she undress, you will just be embarrassed. And everyone will tell you to hang curtains. Now why when someone uses an "electronic eye" to look at what he can "see" around him, everyone has a problem? JUST HANG CURTAINS!
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why then mention passwords. this was just unprotected wifi.
They also collected SSID's and MAC addresses from secured routers and logged it with their approximate GPS co-ordinates.
There's a website where you can put your router's MAC into to see if it is on there.
What's the URL of aforesaid website?
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. - Albert Einstein
http://cellphonetrackers.org/gsm/wifi-tracker.php
http://samy.pl/androidmap/index.php
Who cares?
If you outlaw crack cocaine, only outlaws will have crack cocaine. If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.
I'm all for it. It increases non GPS location accuracy...
"Incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others."
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Really, it's not like they're publishing your \%Username%\My Documents\Important Stuff\Mom dont look in here\pron\ folder.
But why collect the info in the first place though?
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