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Except for that one small time in Europe when they "accidentally" captured live traffic en masse.. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2010/05/17/google-admits-st

by _wmd 13y ago

Except for that one small time in Europe when they "accidentally" captured live traffic en masse.. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2010/05/17/google-admits-street-view-wifi-sniffing/1 http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2010/05/17/google-admits-s...

yohui 13y ago
What's with the scare quotes? Are you suggesting it was not an accident?
- nieve 13y ago
  You may have missed the bits that came out about the capture going on with the knowledge of some Google employees. Th e original developer has plenty of experience with wifi data capture and knew exactly what you could do with the data as well as that you didn't need full packet dumps to snag SSIDs. "Google long maintained that the engineer was solely responsible for this aspect of the project, which resulted in official investigations, some still unresolved, in more than a dozen countries. But a complete version of the F.C.C.’s report, released by Google on Saturday, has cast doubt on that explanation, saying that the engineer informed at least one superior and that seven engineers who worked on the code were all in a position to know what was going on." - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/technology/engineer-in-googles-street-view-is-identified.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/technology/engineer-in-goo...
eli 13y ago
I don't think "en masse" is a fair way to describe a handful of stray packets per AP as the car drove by.
- scott_karana 13y ago
  200 GB is a "handful"? http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/03/googles-wi-fi-sniffing-debacle http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/03/googles-wi-fi...
  - eli 13y ago
    shrug That doesn't sound like very much data for a fleet of vehicles to collect over the course of a few years. Pretty sure it was just a handful of packets per (unencrypted) access point, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Except for that one small time in Europe when they "accidentally" captured live traffic en masse.. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2010/05/17/google-admits-st

by _wmd 13y ago

yohui 13y ago
What's with the scare quotes? Are you suggesting it was not an accident?
- nieve 13y ago
  You may have missed the bits that came out about the capture going on with the knowledge of some Google employees. Th e original developer has plenty of experience with wifi data capture and knew exactly what you could do with the data as well as that you didn't need full packet dumps to snag SSIDs. "Google long maintained that the engineer was solely responsible for this aspect of the project, which resulted in official investigations, some still unresolved, in more than a dozen countries. But a complete version of the F.C.C.’s report, released by Google on Saturday, has cast doubt on that explanation, saying that the engineer informed at least one superior and that seven engineers who worked on the code were all in a position to know what was going on." - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/technology/engineer-in-googles-street-view-is-identified.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/technology/engineer-in-goo...
eli 13y ago
I don't think "en masse" is a fair way to describe a handful of stray packets per AP as the car drove by.
- scott_karana 13y ago
  200 GB is a "handful"? http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/03/googles-wi-fi-sniffing-debacle http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/03/googles-wi-fi...
  - eli 13y ago
    shrug That doesn't sound like very much data for a fleet of vehicles to collect over the course of a few years. Pretty sure it was just a handful of packets per (unencrypted) access point, but please correct me if I'm wrong.