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Friday, July 2, 2010

Internet Privacy Revisited

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If you haven’t heard, Google is under investigation for capturing internet traffic from unsecured WiFi access points via their Street View cars all around the world since 2006. Please note that the WiFi was unsecured: any secured WiFi hotspot was protected. Until recently, Google has claimed that the traffic they captured by accident was not sensitive in nature. However, it has now been found that Google has been gathering more than just random internet traffic from its Street View cars. It has been reported that the information that Google collected contained email passwords and other more sensitive information. So basically, Google can have your email password right now, and that is a scary thought. Read More