Data Engineer in Google Case Is Identified - author of NetStumbler

Re:Data Engineer in Google Case Is Identified - author of Ne... by whackberry on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @01:51AM (#3913206)

> It's more like hearing a loud mouthed neighbor say to his wife "It's a secret! don't tell any one.. its very private too... we have won the jackpot"

Yeah, if it was only near your home. But if you went around driving and listening to hundreds of "loud neighbors" for a day that'd change from passive listening to being outright creepy.

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Re:Data Engineer in Google Case Is Identified - author of Ne... by true_religion on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @02:21AM (#3913264)

Yeah and if you were driving around taking pictures of peoples homes some might call that creepy---but that's exactly what Google did to create Street View.

I don't think it benefits anyone to argue against the analogy, rather than arguing against the reality in this case.

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Re:Data Engineer in Google Case Is Identified - author of Ne... by whackberry on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @12:44PM (#3915217)

> if you were driving around taking pictures of peoples homes some might call that creepy---but that's exactly what Google did to create Street View.

I do find street view creepy.

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Re:Data Engineer in Google Case Is Identified - author of Ne... by michaelcampbell on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @04:15PM (#3916196)

And still not unethical. Why is "near my home" any different from "not near my home"? Or is it the volume/number of loudmouthed neighbors you listened to, from the public street, what you object to?

At what point do you pass the creepy threshold?

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