15.05.2010 00:20 Uhr, Quelle: MacNN

Google: Street View team accidentally caught Wi-Fi data

Google today warned that it had accidentally picked up on Wi-Fi data while taking photos for Google Maps' Street View feature. Cars using the panoramic cameras for the past three years caught not just the SSIDs and MAC addresses that identified networks and devices but also "fragments" of the actual data itself. The intercepts didn't include either whole data or any information that passed over a secure network, the company said.

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