[AusNOG] Google creepier than Conroy?

[Andrew Cox]

Everyone seems to be assuming the software was written for the express  
purpose of being uploaded to google streetview vehicles to capture  
information worldwide, when in reality for all we know the application  
used for the wireless capture may very well be part of the same  
software google uses to audit and security test its own networks hence  
it would make perfect sense for an option to capture traffic to be  
part of their software.

It's all speculation on our part (mine as much as anyone else) and I  
don't think Conroy or any of us are really in a place to comment on  
how accidental this was. Leaving it to the courts and the proper  
authorities (hopefully authorities who *do* understand these things..  
unlike Conroy) to work it all out and make a decision.

- Andrew

On 30/05/2010, at 10:35 AM, Andrew Fort wrote:

> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:32 AM,  <roland at chan.id.au> wrote:
>> Even Conroy has a point here. He's pointed out that the collection  
>> software was not written by accident. At some point it was designed  
>> to do what has been done. It may have been accidentally turned on  
>> for the data collection drives, but at some point Google actually  
>> wanted to do this and constructed the capability to do so. I don't  
>> imagine that it's a bug, it has to be a feature.
>
> That was the subtext for me posting the article - when even Conroy has
> a point, one really does need to stop and wonder.
>
> -a
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