The WiFi snooping row  Google has gotten itself into seems to be far from over. In April, Google revealed that its Street View cars had been collecting basic data such as the MAC addresses and SSIDs of WiFi networks in the vicinity. But after German authorities asked Google to audit the data, it admitted to have been “mistakenly” snooping payload data from Open WiFi networks. Apparently, a piece of WiFi data analysis code, written by Google engineers back in 2006, was part of the software used by the Street View cars, in turn leading to the WiFi snooping (of about 600 GB of data across 30 countries!). Read more…

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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Govt. of India, has set a June 2009 deadline for complying with its regulation on WiFi security. Here’s a position paper that evaluates the DoT regulation and suggests best practices for secure use of WiFi.

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