Street View: Google given 35 days to delete wi-fi data
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Google in court again?
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23002166[/url]
[quote]Google has been given 35 days to delete any remaining data it "mistakenly collected" while taking pictures for its Street View service, or face criminal proceedings.[/quote]
[quote]A Google engineer wrote a piece of software that would pull data from the unsecured wi-fi networks the car encountered as it drove through towns and cities. The data included personal emails and other sensitive information. [/quote]
So my question is how did this piece of software get peoples "personal emails and other sensitive information" from unsecured Wifi hotspots?
Also, high five to the rouge google guy that gave himself free WiFi in "30 different countries"
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So my question is how did this piece of software get peoples "personal emails and other sensitive information" from unsecured Wifi hotspots?[/QUOTE]
Because the traffic wasn't encryped
[QUOTE=Cranefield;41126548]So my question is how did this piece of software get peoples "personal emails and other sensitive information" from unsecured Wifi hotspots?[/QUOTE]
Go to McDonald's, order a big mac, pull out laptop, check email. I now have you info bro.
[QUOTE=cani;41127874]Go to McDonald's, order a big mac, pull out laptop, check email. I now have you info bro.[/QUOTE]
I assume most web based email uses encryption nowadays.
[QUOTE=Demache;41128238]I assume most web based email uses encryption nowadays.[/QUOTE]
Gmail uses a different private key for every user in their SSL (Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral ) - but that isn't really encryption.
[editline]21st June 2013[/editline]
Other webmails probably just use standard SSL though so that's worse
[QUOTE=Flapadar;41128270]Gmail uses a different private key for every user in their SSL (Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral ) - but that isn't really encryption.
[editline]21st June 2013[/editline]
Other webmails probably just use standard SSL though so that's worse[/QUOTE]
Outlook uses a similar method to gmail I believe. Generally speaking most of the major ones will be relatively secure. It's generally minor webmails that might have issues.
As to banks - most use two if not 3 step auths. The only thing I can see people getting of you is social sites.
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