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Regarding [2], the sensationalized, alarmist way the media reported this was not remotely accurate, nor would the conspiracy theory angle on this story make any
by wololo 6y ago
Regarding [2], the sensationalized, alarmist way the media reported this was not remotely accurate, nor would the conspiracy theory angle on this story make any practical sense.
- jazzyjackson 6y agoSorry, what's not practical about Google increasing their location accuracy for the benefit of both the consumer and the government?
- square_usual 6y agoThe second link isn't about that, it's about Google stealing information from insecure WiFi using Street View vehicles.
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y agoIs there a solid source on what was actually collected?
- divbzero 6y agoGoogle’s official statement admitted to collecting payload data from unsecured WiFi networks but said it was a mistake from including a library with extraneous code. [1] The statement also linked to a third-party analysis of the relevant code which concluded: [2] “Gslite is an executable program that captures, parses, and writes to disk 802.11 wireless frame data. In particular, it parses all frame header data and associates it with its GPS coordinates for easy storage and use in mapping network locations. The program does not analyze or parse the body of Data frames, which contain user content. The data in the Data frame body passes through memory and is written to disk in unparsed format if the frame is sent over an unencrypted wireless network, and is discarded if the frame is sent over an encrypted network.” [1]: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/wifi-data-collection-update.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/wifi-data-collection... [2]: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//googleblogs/pdfs/friedberg_sourcecode_analysis_060910.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...