Big Brother Google, Caught hacking your wifi!

[eSineM]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/06/22/cnet.google.wifi.probe/index.html?hpt=T2

As the google van was driving around taking pictures of houses for google maps.. It was also logging the GPS coordinates of all wifi hot spots encountered, if those hot spots were not secure, google saved as much of the data as it could including private emails, passwords, chat conversations or whatever else may have been going on at the moment.

If I did this, I would be in prison, no questions asked... but Google can do it and make money!

Oh how nice it is to live above the law

[FuzzyCottonsocks]

This is scary....

[darklable]

Wow.. And once again we see that in our "free country" money is truly power. Same with famous people getting special privileges in prison huh? Oh well, we just gotta start locking our wifi spots from now on I guess..

[eSineM]

It may not be what we think it is

[Stealth3si]

Their google map camera took a picture of my house with my dad in front.

Creepy.

[Graeth]

Eh, serves people right for being morons.
Natural selection at work.