Posted on 09/25/2014 6:21:23 AM PDT by servo1969
On the one hand, I think the more money bands make, the worse their music is.
I also wish I could record a days work, and then get rich off having people pay me for copies of it.
Most of the best music and art ever created was done by impoverished or nearly broke artists (Mozart, Beethoven, Van Gogh, Michaelangelo, and greatest of all, Bach—who though not impoverished, lived a merely comfortable middle class life).
But on the other hand, I’m very much against some parasite like Google making money off them instead.
And as we have seen with the James Foley beheading video, the government can shut down any website it wants at a moments notice. Documentingreality and Liveleak were both shut down for 4 days after posting that video BUT Youtube was merely warned. Why was that? To me it’s because of money. We have such a corrupt government right now that those companies who got money up that wazoo pretty much have carte blanche to do whatever they want.
So the moving receiver, which reminds me of those mobile radio detectors in England, drive around and try to map wi-Fi transmitter locations that they stick on a map?
Are they detecting the wi-fi modems/servers or mobile laptops or both?
What about the pass code that is required for the laptops to connect to their modems?
Or is it just no-key required systems that they can understand the data from?
That's the general idea as I understand it. Presumably, they make multiple sweeps to see which ones remain in a static location over time.
Also presumably, they can collect all the data they but only unencrypted data can actually be "read" in any way that makes sense. Unless they know how to break the passkey, of course. (Especially in cases where the user leaves the default settings on.) Of course, even an unprotected/open access WiFi hotspot should be set up to encrypt the actual traffic that goes through it, I doubt most people who don't bother closing access will turn around and go through the hassle of enabling encryption.
I have 3 wireless networks - do I get $30?
Bump
I get it, its unprotected free public wi-fi servers.
Even my fitness center server requires that the members hit an OK on their screens to connect out to the internet, and its flaky too.
So Google would get no accidental data from that.
In today’s environment, most people get their routers from their internet provider and they’re already preset with at least minimal security. 2007-2010, though? Probably 80% of the WAPs in my neighborhood were unprotects, as opposed to maybe 5% of them now.
One wonders about that re Google. They got an awful lot of money incredibly quickly.
I want the $10,000 that Google has owed me.
Sigh.
It does a gigabit too. :-)
Any bets Google will buy off the lawyers?
I agree.
And I recall in the late 1990s wireless home phones were analog FM and could be listened to with a frequency scanner available at any radio shack. Sure it was against the law to listen in but it was unenforceable.
Now they are all digital as are cell phones, very difficult to listen into.
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