On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:15:00 -0400, WaIIy wrote:

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:29:30 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:17:52 -0400, WaIIy wrote:

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:35:20 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

"WaIIy" wrote in message
m...

Ironic that you're posing this in Google Plus, considering the thousands
of wifi networks they stole info from via "Street View".

Did they steal info from them, or merely record their existence? I haven't
followed that story...

L8R

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Steal

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As always, it depends on who you talk to:

They stole data. Period, no debate here.

One can't steal data via wifi snooping.
i.E. Take it, and deprive the intented user of that data..

You can copy it.. but not steal it..

In Google case... the data in question was being freely transmitted to the street at the
time they passed by.




http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...le-streetview/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1464047.html

http://blogs.computerworld.com/20106/google_engineer_at_center_of_street_view_wi_fi_con troversy_authored_the_groundbreaking_netstumbler_a pp