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Thread ID: 110262 2010-06-09 21:48:00 Web Giant Google Faces NZ Police Probe. Trev (427) PC World Chat
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1108580 2010-06-09 21:48:00 Here. (www.nzherald.co.nz)
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Trev (427)
1108581 2010-06-09 21:55:00 I think it was "accidental" - But I recall an article with similar issues a few weeks back in Germany or France, where Sergey Brin admitted "they screwed up" in a press conference. kahawai chaser (3545)
1108582 2010-06-09 21:55:00 The privacy scandal has sparked fears that Google may have intercepted personal banking details and could link people's internet behaviour to home addresses.Methinks that whoever has those fears doesn't really understand how encryption works, nor how MAC addresses are used. Erayd (23)
1108583 2010-06-09 22:38:00 Methinks that whoever has those fears doesn't really understand how encryption works, nor how MAC addresses are used.

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(besides, if you're dumb enough to be doing internet banking over a public WiFi connection you deserve what you get!)
johcar (6283)
1108584 2010-06-09 23:54:00 The name
A play on googol, the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes

OR.....someone had been listening to the 1923 Jones and Hare song Barney Google (www.archive.org) :rolleyes:
Terry Porritt (14)
1108585 2010-06-10 01:15:00 people need to take responsibility for their tech.

I know many who run open Wifi, i have been telling them for years to go WPA.
they dont care.

then this google story kicks off, and now they are all full of rage at google.




end users need to get a clue.
robsonde (120)
1108586 2010-06-10 01:25:00 Sounds like the NZ police have too much spare time. Sounds like another NZ Gov Me Too effort again.. paulw (1826)
1108587 2010-06-10 01:37:00 I know many who run open Wifi, i have been telling them for years to go WPA.
they dont care.

then this google story kicks off, and now they are all full of rage at google.

end users need to get a clue.

True, but thankfully the banks don't leave it to the "end-user" and the traffic between you and your bank, regardless of it being communicated wirelessly at your home or not, is encrypted with (128-bit for ASB Bank) SSL encryption.
Chilling_Silence (9)
1108588 2010-06-10 01:43:00 I guess it might be easy to say from a computer person .

Many people are not in tuned with computers other than using it . We know about security settings, backups, reinstallations, activation, the avg person would have little idea . They go to a toaster shop and pick up a computer that they can afford and its able to do their MS Office and email and surf the web .

Virtually all wireless gears are shipped read out of the box, it's marketing . Plug and play for any novice . Within a few minutes you can surf the web wirelessly .

It's like saying every car owner should know how to change the oil, change a tyre, jump start it and change a blown bulb . . . .
Nomad (952)
1108589 2010-06-10 01:46:00 We know about security settings, backups, reinstallations, activation, the avg person would have little idea.

Such as the NZ Police? :D
Chilling_Silence (9)
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