Part of Google’s data collection for its Street View product also collected SSID’s (which is the name people give their wireless home network routers). This news is not new.
Consumer Watchdog, which is a Santa Monica, California based advocacy group, hired a company to check the network traffic of Congress members whose homes were on Google’s Street View maps.
According to Consumer Watchdog, the tests revealed that Representative Jane Harman, a Democrat from California and House Intelligent Subcommittee of Homeland Security Committee and a former member of the Intelligence committee had at least one wire less network in her Washington, D.C. residence which may have been breached by Google.
Congresswoman Harman was not alone, as there were four other members of Congress who may have had vulnerable wireless networks.
To even think that anyone related to the security of our country is allowed to have a wireless network in their home or office goes beyond stupidity.
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