True, Mr Worf, on both counts. I'm thinking that Google's intent in this was two-fold, to deflect attention from their own hacking and actual altruism, wanting to solve the problem before it leaps out of hand.
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Some of these politicians are just stupid, but she probably didn't have > anything to do with setting up the network. > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Martin Baxter <martin.baxter....@gmail.com> >> Date: Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:52 PM >> Subject: Consumer Group Sniffs Congresswoman's Open Wi-Fi >> To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com >> >> >> Holy hacking, Batman! >> >> =================================================================== >> >> Consumer Group Sniffs Congresswoman’s Open Wi-Fi >> >> - By David Kravets<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/author/davidkravets/> >> [image: >> Email Author] <david_krav...@wired.com> >> - July 9, 2010 | >> - 1:37 pm | >> - Categories: >> Surveillance<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/category/surveillance/>, >> privacy <http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/category/privacy/> >> - >> >> <http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/07/Picture-28.png>We’re >> not sure what’s more humorous: That California Rep. Jane Harman, the ranking >> member of the House Intelligence Committee, maintains two unencrypted Wi-Fi >> networks at her residence, or that a consumer group sniffed her unsecured >> traffic in a bid to convince lawmakers to hold hearings about Google. >> >> A representative for Consumer >> Watchdog<http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/corporateering/articles/?storyId=35100>— >> a group largely funded by legal fees, the Rose Foundation, Streisand >> Foundation, Tides Foundation and others — parked outside Harman’s and other >> lawmakers’ Washington-area residences to determine whether they had >> unsecured Wi-Fi networks that might have been sniffed by Google as part of >> the internet giant’s Street View and Google Maps program. >> >> The group wants the House Energy and Commerce Committee, of which Harman >> is also a member, to haul Google executives before it, so they can publicly >> explain why, for three years, Google was downloading data packets from >> unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in neighborhoods in dozens of countries. Google >> has repeatedly said it didn’t realize it was storing snippets of payload >> data on unsecured Wi-Fi networks, until German privacy authorities began >> questioning what data Google was collecting. >> >> >> More at: >> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/congresswoman-wifi-sniffed/ >> >> >> -- >> "Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live." >> >> (About little moments of happiness) "If this isn't nice, I don't know what >> is." -- Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" >> >> >> >> -- >> "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell >> wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik >> >> >> > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
