Germany Finds Kismet, Custom Code In Google Car 237
theodp writes "While waiting for a hard disk of Wi-Fi data that Google says its Street View cars gathered by mistake, the Hamburg Information Commissioner's office performed tests on a Google Street View car in a controlled environment with simulated wireless networks and issued the following statement: 'For the Wi-Fi coverage in the Street View cars, both the free software Kismet, and a Google-specific program were used. The Google-specific program components are available only in machine-readable binary code, which makes it impossible to analyze the internal processing.' Interestingly, a 2008 academic paper — Drive-by Localization of Roadside WiFi Networks (PDF) — describes a similar setup, and its authors discuss how they 'modified Kismet, a popular wireless packet sniffer, to optionally capture all packets received on the raw virtual interface.' Computerworld reports that lawyers in a class-action suit have amended their complaint to link a Google patent app to Street View data sniffing."
Re:So how can the computer do it then? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So how can the computer do it then? (Score:3, Funny)
zero-one, please.... all you little endian people who count the wrong way around...
Re:There are worse intercepts besides a few wifi p (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah seriously. Why does the German government have to be such a bunch of Naz... oh, I see.
Re:So how can the computer do it then? (Score:3, Funny)
That is so 1.
Now we can find out once and for all ... (Score:3, Funny)
It depends - the government should disassemble the code and see if the evil bit is set.
Kismet (Score:4, Funny)
Re:So how can the computer do it then? (Score:1, Funny)
way to kill the joke, now go and encode 132 on your hands. it's 00100 00100 in binary.
Re:So how can the computer do it then? (Score:3, Funny)
Do you write the current year as 0102?
I prefer 0x0A14.
Re:So how can the computer do it then? (Score:3, Funny)
If you're going to be anal, at least know what the F you're talking about.
What does 15 have to do with it?
Re:Not really illegal, but wreaks of dishonesty (Score:4, Funny)