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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Technical explanation of why Google's Wi-Fi payload
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Technical explanation of why Google's Wi-Fi payload collection
was inadvertent
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Here's an article forwarded to me that gives a good, somewhat
technical explanation of why it's easy to accidentally collect Wi-Fi
payload data in the course of mapping Wi-Fi access points:
"Although some people are suspicious of their explanation, Google is
almost certainly telling the truth when it claims it was an
accident. The technology for WiFi scanning means it's easy to
inadvertently capture too much information, and be unaware of it."
http://bit.ly/95PrHq (Errata Security)
--Lauren--
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