Re:Google staff 'knew of wi-fi snooping'
by jimmyvanhalen on Monday April 30, 2012 @01:36PM
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Just because my door is open doesn't mean you can just walk in my house and steal my television.
What about if your door is open and you're talking loudly to your friend on speakerphone with the volume way up? Do I have to plug my ears when I walk past?
Re:Google staff 'knew of wi-fi snooping'
by jimmyvanhalen on Monday April 30, 2012 @09:38PM
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Still doesn't give you the right to steal my tv.
Re:Google staff 'knew of wi-fi snooping'
by VikingCoder on Monday April 30, 2012 @01:51PM
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I find your analogy absurd in every respect.
https is absolutely not a red herring. If you use an unencrypted wifi, and use http to access your online services, you do not care at all about security.
After the fact, blaming Google for recording open wifi data is absurd.
The point of my post was, if you're concerned about Google accessing the data between a computer and random services on the internet, then you should be REALLY concerned about them being an ISP. Just like you should be concerned about every OTHER ISP. The solution to not having ISPs - or other intermediaries - have access to all of your data is to use an https connection to your web services.
Do you see the acronym "https" show up, at all in the linked article? No. That's absurd. It is THE SOLUTION to people sniffing your emails and passwords.