...and, apparently, they were listening to the wi-fi signals they picked up.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/17 ... print.html]Register editorial
I'm not a big fan of wardriving - if I wanted someone to know about my wi-fi router, I would have posted a sign - but that's just my opinion. Listening in on the communications detected while wardriving crosses the line to "illegal actions".
Why is Google allowed to do things like this?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/17 ... print.html]Register editorial
I'm not a big fan of wardriving - if I wanted someone to know about my wi-fi router, I would have posted a sign - but that's just my opinion. Listening in on the communications detected while wardriving crosses the line to "illegal actions".
Why is Google allowed to do things like this?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012