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privacyguru | 15 years ago | on: Princeton Grad Student And 'Brilliant' Programmer, Dies In Apparent Suicide

This is a tough one to swallow. I never knew Bill personally but it did hit home as shared some common connections. Sucks. Sucks that its too late to help him. I won't comment on what I think should be done to that person but they deserve the worst and then some.

Someone posted a great quote in the comments on the story on Gizmodo: "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

RIP Bill Zeller.

privacyguru | 15 years ago | on: Washington State University Classroom Media Systems Hacked

Gotta love this part: "And really IT, get with the program and stop wasting exorbitant amounts of money on equipment that periodically freezes and allows unauthorized access. Consider stepping outside your personal areas of comfort and the safe purchases dictated by popular culture. This system which you took months and untold thousands of dollars to implement, I have re-designed in one hour."

privacyguru | 15 years ago | on: Google Admits Streetview Cars Collected "Entire Emails, URLs and Passwords"

Story says "Google collected the data as a result of code integrated into the software used to identify and map WiFi signals. Google says the code was developed in 2006 by an engineer working on an experimental WiFi project that sampled all categories of publicly broadcast WiFi data. That coded ended up on the systems that power the data collection of the Street View cars."

privacyguru | 15 years ago | on: Google Admits Streetview Cars Collected "Entire Emails, URLs and Passwords"

Not saying that, just that it's more of an issue when a company like Google does it. People go "war driving" all the time and that isn't a big deal - but when a company like Google does, it's a bigger deal. And Google probably isn't a threat with the data, but people need to just secure their networks! Maybe it's a good lesson and better in the long run actually!

privacyguru | 15 years ago | on: Google Admits Streetview Cars Collected "Entire Emails, URLs and Passwords"

Cryptoz -- I agree, all public data once it is broadcasted. But as the article says "While the data was technically broadcasted to the public and anyone with the know-how and appropriate gear could collect the same information, it would be hard for anyone to collect such data on the massive scale that Google did." -- Google should have known better. Someone knew what data they were collecting.

And yes, people should have secured their wireless routers.

privacyguru | 15 years ago | on: The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions

Google is smart and they are not alone in running their businesses like this. Pros and Cons -- sure the gov't misses out on some revenue but also many of those savings are reinvested into hiring and generating jobs and even more profits, which in the end, can still generate revenue for uncle sam.

privacyguru | 15 years ago | on: Using Guilt Instead of Cryptography

Agreed - We just need more devices with front facing cameras - which definitely will happen. Add the fact that location/time data could captured associated with it as well and it's likely make some people at least think twice!
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