Depicting his actions as the work of a rogue “requires putting a lot of dots together,” Mr. Milner said enigmatically Sunday before insisting again he had no comment.
It doesn't sound particularly enigmatic to me. It seems like Milner is clearly saying that Google deliberately misrepresented his behavior as a rogue action to facilitate their legal self-protection when in fact it's obvious from their choice of the author of NetStumbler to work on Street View that his designated role was likely to involve making use of his expertise with Wi-Fi networks.
Of course they hired a WiFi expert for their WiFi-related project. But that doesn't mean their claim of rogue behavior is simply self-protection. What if they hired him for his expertise with Wi-Fi and told him they only wanted to collect the minimal amount of data but he went rogue and collected ALL the data anyway? But I'm with those people that think the freely broadcast unencrypted packets are in the public domain and Google didn't do anything illegal.
Sigh. They're not related per se, but the same cars were used to collect street view photos and SSID->location mappings (used for Android positioning).
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Depicting his actions as the work of a rogue “requires putting a lot of dots together,” Mr. Milner said enigmatically Sunday before insisting again he had no comment.
It doesn't sound particularly enigmatic to me. It seems like Milner is clearly saying that Google deliberately misrepresented his behavior as a rogue action to facilitate their legal self-protection when in fact it's obvious from their choice of the author of NetStumbler to work on Street View that his designated role was likely to involve making use of his expertise with Wi-Fi networks.
Of course they hired a WiFi expert for their WiFi-related project. But that doesn't mean their claim of rogue behavior is simply self-protection. What if they hired him for his expertise with Wi-Fi and told him they only wanted to collect the minimal amount of data but he went rogue and collected ALL the data anyway? But I'm with those people that think the freely broadcast unencrypted packets are in the public domain and Google didn't do anything illegal.
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Sigh. They're not related per se, but the same cars were used to collect street view photos and SSID->location mappings (used for Android positioning).
Not the best source, but it gives you the gist of things:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/196397/googles_wifi_spying_wh...
Exactly. Utter BS. The company that claims to be the smartest people in the world just haphazardly put this guy on this project.
Not a chance.
With the resources devoted to Streetview, it is unlikely that the software running it was a 20% time project by the time it was deployed.