Comments on: Google Street View Car Cameras Grab Emails and Passwords

By: Kenoshabrew

Kenoshabrew — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:28:00 +0000

Programs for finding out codes huh…? You don’t know much about networking. Please stop posting before you ruin your original argument even more… It was a least a valid argument until you said that…

By: Kenoshabrew

Kenoshabrew — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:25:00 +0000

Sorry. I agree with the other fellow. Not password protecting your router is just sheer idiocy. If those people didn’t get notified their routers were open by google, eventually someone else would have stolen everything that they had. Google did them a favor by bringing this out in the open. Whether they delete every single bite of data or not even important at this point. The fools who don’t learn from a fairly friendly company letting them know will have their data REALLY taken in the future. This is the equivalent of IT natural selection. I’m surprised those fools even know how to turn on a computer in the first place.

By: Chevylance

Chevylance — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:31:00 +0000

Like it or not, There is no such thing as privacy anymore.

By: daniel

daniel — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:43:55 +0000

Makes me laugh. Give in and except this is the way of life. Nobody is safe, nothing is safe.

Daniel

By: John

John — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:37:20 +0000

NO it’s not! We don’t expect people to come in whether the door is open or not. We don’t expect people to just randomly steal things from us. They have to lock onto our signal which would be like opening the door. They have no right to do that either way.

Do you lock onto your neighbours signal and steal their info or are you respectful enough not to?
Do you mind your government locking onto your smartphone and stealing your information not to mention that they can access any data that you have on your computers at home?
Google could effectively do it whether there is a lock or not on your router if you are logged in.

Hell, there are even programs for finding out codes for wireless routers so don’t think having a lock will save you.

The point of this is what is legal and respectful and it should not be the responsibility of the end user.

By: Gildas

Gildas — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:34:48 +0000

No, that is like saying you’ve got your door wide open, and have people of the general public wandering in at random, but you’ve never seemed to notice or care. You don’t even have a string across your entrance. Lesson: lock your wireless access points with even the most basic of security and you’ll be OK.

By: John

John — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:10:15 +0000

@name….That’s like saying that it’s ok for someone to come to your house, walk in if you haven’t locked the door and steel everything.

By: name

name — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 05:25:37 +0000

well, if you enrypt our wifi in the first place, google wouldnt / couldnt collect those data. apparently, those collected data is from open wlans, right?

furthermore, if you send your passwords in plaintext over unsecured connections .. well, i actuall dont think that google is the bad one here, its rather the user.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:48:28 +0000

I’ll be using Bing from now on.

By: Chris Burns

Chris Burns — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:41:07 +0000

It’s not gmail, its every kind of email, and the passwords aren’t necessarily from email accounts, they’re of wireless networks and more – but, google says they’re deleting everything they accidentally found, so no worries! Right?

By: Christopher Masiello

Christopher Masiello — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:33:33 +0000

Doesn’t Google have our emails and their passwords already. I’m on Gmail. Do they really need a driving robot. Can’t they just look on their own servers?
Seriously how much email is on Gmail or going to and from Gmail accounts. They already have the data. Who cares?