google

[naema sufi]

look out K& A users - jut heard google is on the towpath at caen flight, close your laptops, shut off the phone or be robbed of your data.

[john6767]

Is it such a big deal on a boat though? So they get the location of your wifi router, it not really going to help with positing a client connected to it once the boat has moved, or am I missing what they do?

[carlt]

Can they steal my extensive boat porn collection?

[roggie]

"Can they steal my extensive boat porn collection? " that be your fetish for wooden bottoms or rusty hulks?

 

Item on R$'s PM tonight about the tricycle they use to film.

[Graham Davis]

look out K& A users - jut heard google is on the towpath at caen flight, close your laptops, shut off the phone or be robbed of your data.

 

Are you real?

Please tell us exactly how a Google Streetview TRICYCLE is going to steal you data?

[mrsmelly]

look out K& A users - jut heard google is on the towpath at caen flight, close your laptops, shut off the phone or be robbed of your data.

 

Keep taking the tablets.

 

Tim

[wrigglefingers]

Keep taking the tablets.

 

Tim

 

 

 

What!!! They're stealing tablets too?????

 

Richard

[Tuscan]

What!!! They're stealing tablets too?????

 

Richard

 

 

Got to be a green one ....

[keble]

Are you real?

Please tell us exactly how a Google Streetview TRICYCLE is going to steal you data?

It is real. See My link and plenty more

[carlt]

It is real. See My link and plenty more

 

took advantage of open Wi Fi networks to harvest data in the form of photos, documets and emails

 

So the simple answer is to password protect your WiFi connection?

[MartinClark]

It is real. See My link and plenty more

 

If you have an insecure network then anyone can steal your data, not just Google.

[Suzie_q]

So the simple answer is to password protect your WiFi connection?

 

Make sure you change the password from the default, and also disable the auto guest feature if it has one.

 

Kev.

[cotswoldsman]

I just wish I had stuff that was worth keeping secret

[Grace and Favour]

If anyone steals my user/password details - - and try to use my bank/card details - - will that make them liable for my debts........(please........!!!)

[n.b.Goldie]

Slightly off topic ; I took this photo a couple of months ago or so as the Google car came down our street. The driver took exception to this and shouted "you are not allowed to do that". He then drove away before I had the opportunity to ask him why I am not allowed to photo the Google car.

 

 

He was pretty aggressive and drove his car almost to within a couple of feet of me. I was standing at the rear of my car.

 

Clearly the watchers do not like being watched!

 

Regards

Ditchdabbler

[Suzie_q]

Slightly off topic ; I took this photo a couple of months ago or so as the Google car came down our street. The driver took exception to this and shouted "you are not allowed to do that". He then drove away before I had the opportunity to ask him why I am not allowed to photo the Google car.

 

He was pretty aggressive and drove his car almost to within a couple of feet of me. I was standing at the rear of my car.

 

Clearly the watchers do not like being watched!

 

Regards

Ditchdabbler

 

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? or "Who watches the watchmen?".

[PhilR]

look out K& A users - jut heard google is on the towpath at caen flight, close your laptops, shut off the phone or be robbed of your data.

 

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Edited August 1, 2012 by PhilR

[Dominic M]

As a charitable gesture Google have offered CaRT a helping hand in policing overstayers. You must have read about it.

Edited July 31, 2012 by Dominic M

[Gazboatman]

Slightly off topic ; I took this photo a couple of months ago or so as the Google car came down our street. The driver took exception to this and shouted "you are not allowed to do that". He then drove away before I had the opportunity to ask him why I am not allowed to photo the Google car.

 

 

He was pretty aggressive and drove his car almost to within a couple of feet of me. I was standing at the rear of my car.

 

Clearly the watchers do not like being watched!

 

Regards

Ditchdabbler

You'll be on google earth soon stood there with your camera no doubt.

[Chris Pink]

If you have an insecure network then anyone can steal your data, not just Google.

 

Rubbish.

[john6767]

Is it such a big deal on a boat though? So they get the location of your wifi router, it not really going to help with positing a client connected to it once the boat has moved, or am I missing what they do?

 

Other than sensationalist stuff about the case where an employee was stealing data, what really is it that is the issue here? In reality no one is going to have an open router anyway, and even if they did it does not mean data can be stolen, just it makes it more possible, and anyone connecting to the router could do that, Google is no different in that respect.

 

The thing that Google does is use the GPS location of wifi routers as part of providing a location service, everyone's router at home will already be included in this anyway, if you have it visible, and on a boat that is moving what is the issue really?

 

Anyway the real reason for me posting again, was really that I had misunderstood the OP. I thought is was about them doing the mapping not that part of the K&A had gone live on Google maps. See link to BBC, and my streetview link

[Cosy Toes]

Do you think that they might include a tracking system for continuous cruisers?

[john6767]

Further to this, the feeder from Trevor to Horseshoe falls on the Llangollen is also on streetview.

Edited August 1, 2012 by john6767

[MartinClark]

Rubbish.

 

Care to expand on that?

[Chris Pink]

Care to expand on that?

 

An example;

 

You go into Starbucks (or anywhere else), log in to their free wifi, do you get access to their computer system?

 

an open wifi network doesn't give you any access to computers on that network without proper (ie secure) access permissions.

 

Closed Wifi only helps the phone companies.