Google Street View logs WiFi networks, Mac addresses
 

The name of the Big Brother beast is the GORG.... |scared|

They just keep invading everything on privacy, until some government(eg. Germany,Canada) bitch slaps them and then they back off a bit. |club|

Until the next time they get caught with their hand in the cookie jar!

That is how assisted GPS knows where a wifi is located so that it can give a user their location.

Personally I don't have a problem with this.

Oh boo-hoo it records your MAC address. Great. Did you know that your computer sends it's MAC address along with every damn thing you do on your network? But only to the next nearest device, coincidentally.

So yes, on WiFi, I can sit there and go "oh, someone NEAR here is using MAC address so-and-so". Yeah, well, get any area that's got a lot of domestic WiFi going on, and you've got upwards of 100 to 200 MAC addresses in a 300sq feet area.

Wonder how they'll link that back to an individual.

Besides, it's WiFi. If you don't want your shit looked at when it flies through the ether, get some cat-5 and cable up.

Its not a matter of technology...
 

Its a matter of ethics...

Which google seems to have little of...

More a matter of using what's available - if you've got a banner on the side of your house proclaiming you like Obama, so what if I send you a mailer promoting him? After all, you put the information out there, so now it's in the public domain.

People that are worried that Google records the existance of their home WiFi should take a good hard look at themselves and then do one of two things: if you left your wireless open or secured with a weak WEP password, you should go have a cup of STFU, because you are in no position to talk. If you took the proper security measures such as using WPA2, having your wireless access point do MAC filtering so only your own machines can connect; then you can talk and complain. However, people that have done the latter are generally aware of the fact that WiFi is an ether-transmitted medium and as such -can be sniffed, recorded, located, and otherwise spotted-, and know it doesn't make one iota of difference how much complaining is done, that shit done don't change.

There is a real simple solution to people not wanting the MAC address of their wifi logged, turn it off and use a wired network.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/images/i...345/611060.jpg

Simplest solution (laughing) would be to have the use of the technology banned...
Google is already in so much shit over their sleazy practices...why do we need to jump through hoops?
We are very secure...non-MAC...but...seriously...the original point please...the USA is such a cesspool at this point who gives a shit anyway right?

@JAI-LING: Non MAC? Oh really now.


ohnoes! they are stealing my megahurtz! i'm broadcasting an IP address! the haxxors will get me!"

Maybe JAI-LING needs to move out of LA and find a nice cozy cave to hide out in so that no one will tag his wifi.

Here's the MAC address of my WiFi, 00:19:E3:FB:76:4F. It has been tagged as being located in east Fort Lauderdale. I know this because my non gps WiFi devices know where on this big spinning rock it is located which is rather coinvent for me because things like the X10 controllers in my house know what time sunrise and sunset so the lights in my house work automatically.

Being the evil hacker person that I am, the MAC address on my WiFi router is 00:DE:AD:BE:EF:00 ... my laptop responds to 00:FE:ED:FA:CE ... so I guess I'm feeding my face dead beef :D

For an a-hole, you're a funny guy... good points.

And of course digging deeper as more information comes out, they weren't just grabbing MAC addresses. |catfight|

Considering that 99% of people are not technical in any way, and just run stuff straight out of the box. |whisper|

That snooping makes one hell of an accidental information grab! |bullshit|

I hear that google knows what we search for too.

they're going overboard

So when we move to IPv6 and mac addresses are integrated with our IP addresses, will we be undergoing mass panic then?