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How do you _mistakenly_ collect "samples of payload data"? Someone mistakenly wrote/used a packet logger, compiled/installed it on the Street View cars and mist
by pearjuice 13y ago
How do you _mistakenly_ collect "samples of payload data"? Someone mistakenly wrote/used a packet logger, compiled/installed it on the Street View cars and mistakenly executed the service to be running in the background? How does that happen?
- billiard 13y agohttp://googleblog.blogspot.jp/2010/05/wifi-data-collection-update.html http://googleblog.blogspot.jp/2010/05/wifi-data-collection-u... links to http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//googleblogs/pdfs/friedberg_sourcecode_analysis_060910.pdf http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/... which explains how it happened in the executive summary and then in way more detail in the body.
- barryhunter 13y agoThe logger was obviouslly there, it was deliberatly collecting the SSIDs and MAC addresses. Possibly a debug option to log the whole packets added during development, and it was accidently left on in production. Or the whole packet was always logged, a second process would then skim just extracting the SSID/MAC (correlating with GPS), and another process was deleting the raw logs. That third process failed. A few big drives in teh data collection devices, and possibly nobody noticed where filling up a little too quickly.