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Another example of users making me angry because they don’t bother to understand the technology they use. Apparently people are all up in arms over Google accidentally collecting data about Wi-Fi networks with their Street View cars. If you research the issue, you’ll find that payload data was only collected from unsecured networks. If you know anything at all about Wi-Fi, you know that these days securing your wireless router is so easy a caveman could do it. There’s no excuse for not doing it! In fact, if you wanted to, you could prevent your router from even broadcasting an SSID in the first place! You can’t sue somebody for invading your privacy if you are willingly broadcasting it unsecured for your whole neighborhood to see.

Do these people not see the irony? They’re suing Google for collecting data that they’re knowingly broadcasting out into open air but not a word about the fact that Google took pictures of their house! I bet these are the same kind of people that put their last names on their mail boxes for all to see.

I hope Google squashes these people. SQUASH.

So I have to admit that one reason I starting thinking about this whole thing is because of the movie Did You Hear About the Morgans. Basic idea – couple is on the brink of divorce, they happen to witness a murder, get sent away to country bumpkin land under the witness protection program, hilarity ensues. My question is: What happens in this day in age when people who have been tweeting, posting, & connecting their lives away on social networks end up in the witness protection program? Read the rest of this entry »