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"Does Google Threaten Your Wi-Fi Network Security?"

This post was written by Randall Ryder: "Ethernet might be faster, but many workplaces use Wi-Fi to provide internet access to their employees. Wi-Fi is certainly convenient, but failing to secure your wireless network can slow your connection, and cause all types of security issues.

Security breaches

Google recently admitted that while mapping neighborhoods from Google Maps, the camera cars also captured data from unlocked Wi-Fi networks. "If they happened to be transmitting at the exact moment that the car went by, whatever they happened to be transmitting at that moment would have been picked up . . . ."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 18 May 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on May 20, 2010 (boomark / email).