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[Derfel]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/stor...w-privacy.html

How... do you "accidentally" collect info from unencrypted wifi?

Apparently some of the complaints in the States were that they had collected WiFi AP names, which contained addresses, phone numbers and other "private info"...

[monty slick]

Apparently some of the complaints in the States were that they had collected WiFi AP names, which contained addresses, phone numbers and other "private info"...

"Our investigation shows that Google did capture personal information — and, in some cases, highly sensitive personal information such as complete e-mails...."

[Xzinum]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/stor...w-privacy.html

How... do you "accidentally" collect info from unencrypted wifi?

http://www.samy.pl/mapxss/

[Derfel]

"Our investigation shows that Google did capture personal information — and, in some cases, highly sensitive personal information such as complete e-mails...."

Yeah, I saw that part - but what I was saying is that they have had other, less reasonable complaints lodged against them.

[GreenEnvy]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/stor...w-privacy.html

How... do you "accidentally" collect info from unencrypted wifi?

I assume, that if we accept it was accidental, that because Google was intentionally looking for open wifi networks to use as a database for geo-location, that someone messed up implementing the software and it was doing more then just figuring out the location/IP, it was actually getting payload data.

[Sweetlou]

YouTube Commenter Sued for Mocking 'Officer Bubbles'

i hope this hasn't been posted yet

[Xzinum]

YouTube Commenter Sued for Mocking 'Officer Bubbles'

i hope this hasn't been posted yet

I read that yesterday, it's absolutely absurd. QQ

Let me clarify, the lawsuit is absurd. The arrest in the video was completely justified.

[ugly]

College student named police chief in Mexico; no one else applied

A town near drug cartel capital Juarez, Mexico, had just one applicant for police chief after a spate of killings of public officials in drug-related violence.

So now the new chief in Guadalupe, a town of 10,000 residents near the Texas border, is 20-year-old college criminology major Marisol Valles García.

Public officials have increasingly become the targets of assassination as Mexican cartels try to tighten their grasp on the country. Just this year, 11 Mexican mayors have been slain, including the former mayor of Guadalupe, who was killed in June. In the small town, "police officers and security agents have been killed, some of them beheaded," according to the AFP.


Valles tells a local paper that she took the job to help the town's people become less fearful. "Afraid? Everyone is afraid and it's very natural. What motivates me here is that the project [to make the community safer] is very good and can do a lot for my town. I know that we are going to change and remove this," she said.

One Mexican criminology professor told the Arizona Republic that getting elected to public office in Mexico "is like winning a tiger in a raffle."

"Before, it used to be an attractive job, living on the public payroll," said Dante Haro of the University of Guadalajara. "Now being a town mayor is very difficult, not just because of the economic problems but also this issue of obedience to organized crime."

"The weapons we have are principles and values, which are the best weapons for prevention," Valles told CNN en Español. "Our work will be pure prevention. We are not going to be doing anything else other than prevention."

Death pool anyone?

[Sweetlou]

wow that crazy

[monty slick]

The kid's already dead. Sad part is that they're not likely going to make it quick or simple.... they won't let that sort of ideology take root.