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Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" by ForHackernews on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @12:33PM (#6683917)
How do you do that by accident? Somebody had to design, implement, and test a feature to sniff and store data off wireless networks.
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Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" by kllrnohj on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @12:55PM (#6684081)
The goal was just to sniff the wifi APs MAC to pair it with a GPS location for wifi location lookups, not to store the entirety of the packet.
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Re:Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys" by thezilch on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @01:19PM (#6684291)
As the story goes, the code [library] was written for another, past project at Google and a work in progress; the car project extended or implemented it without looking under the covers.
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