Google tries to patent tech that snoops Wi-Fi networkshttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/03/google_wardriving_patent/Wardriving patent app tells allGoogle is attempting to patent the very same wardriving technology the search giant says it used by mistake to snoop on Wi-Fi users in more than 30 countries, attorneys said Wednesday.
A patent application published in January describes a method devised by Google for gathering and analyzing data sent via wireless access points. The application says the device "may be placed in a vehicle and data may be obtained continuously or at predetermined time increments" and that the speed of the vehicle "may be factored into the analysis," according to lawyers suing Google on behalf of people whose traffic may have been collected by the technology.
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“Google was not entitled to receive the payload data it captured from plaintiffs and class members,” the attorneys wrote in an amended complaint filed Wednesday. “After Google received, or assisted in receiving the intercepted communications and data, it used the information for its own benefit or for the benefit of another not entitled thereto, in connected with one or more of Google's businesses, location based services, and/or as described in part in Google's United States Patent Application.”
Google disclosed the data collection last month, contradicting previous assurances that its Street View cars catalogued SSID and MAC addresses of wireless access points but didn't examine the actual payloads that traveled between them and users connected to them. The company said engineers had mistakenly equipped the cars with experimental software that for three years gathered tiny fragments of data as they traveled over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
The amended complaint, one of a handful of lawsuits filed in response to Google's disclosure, appears aimed at countering those claims by arguing the software was well known by company managers considered important enough for them to seek patent protection. The complaint seeks damages of $100,000 for each individual whose data was sniffed.
Of course, Google is a big company, so it's entirely conceivable that patent attorneys in the legal department didn't adequately communicate with engineers deploying Street View cars. But it's going to be harder for the company to claim the Wi-Fi sniffing was the obscure toiling of a handful of employees. ®
Позволих си да копирам целия оригинален текст, поради опасноста да не изчезне...
Става дума че гугъл се опитва да патентова технология за подслушване на безжични връзки. С други думи като сте в интернет да ви преглеждат какво правите.
Директно патента е в:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=%2212/315,079%22&OS=%2212/315,079%22&RS=%2212/315,079%22Можете да видите там имената на създателите:
Юсеф, Адел-Амин, Мишра, Арунеш, Лианг, Сам, Чу, Михаел, Яин, Рави!
Поста е залепен на [time]юни 04, 2010, 01:27:07 [/time]
Малко развитие по симпатичният патент на гугъл:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/04/schmidt_wifi/(Със съкратени преводи от мен)
Google blames Wi-Fi snooping on rogue engineer- Гугъл обвинявали инжинер!
Patented accidental Street View slurp defended- То този патент бил случаен, но си защитават уличното виждане. (незнам дали така се превежда Street View. Става въпрос, че разработили патента, за да могат като минават с колите да снимат улиците да сканират интернета на хората по къщите, покрай които минават. И голям скандал стана щото вече ги съдят някои от тези хора. Скандалът не е дребен щом е огласен даже в
www.theregister.co.uk). Превел съм по-долу само репликите на Ерик Шмид.
Eric Schmidt has taken to the business pages today to blame Google's heavily criticised Street View Wi-Fi data harvesting operation on the actions of one rogue software coder.
The male Googler in question is now subject to disciplinary proceedings, he told the FT.
That's in spite of the news overnight that the firm applied for a patent on the technology in January.
Google has maintained it never intended to collect payload data from Wi-Fi packets. The practice was only exposed after German privacy regulators protested about Google's previously undisclosed system for collecting SSIDs and MAC addresses as its fleet of Street View cars toured Europe.
"We screwed up. Let's be very clear about that," Schmidt said.- "Преебахме се. Нека не се заблуждаваме в това". (точен превод)
He told the FT that Google will begin handing over the intercepted payload data to German, French, Spanish and Italian regulators within the next two days. They are considering criminal investigations, while the UK's Information Commissioner's Office was satisfied by a pledge to delete British data "as soon as reasonably possible".
Google says it is conducting an internal review of its privacy policies as a result of the controversy, but will not restrict its engineers' freedom despite the "clear violation" of its rules by the unnamed rogue coder.
"It would be a terrible thing to put a chilling effect on creativity," said Schmidt.- "Би било ужасно деяние да замразяваме креативноста" (точен превод)
Pass the sick bag, Eric.
He rejected growing perception of Google as arrogant, blaming it on lobbying enemies.
"The arrogance comes across because we try to do things for end-users against organised opposition from stakeholders that are unhappy – and they paint us as arrogant."- "Арогантноста ни атакува поради това, че ние се грижим за последния потребител, борейки се с големите риби, които са недоволни от това и заради това ни обрисуват като арогантни." (колко мило!)
"But I am sure that all successful organisations have some arrogance in them."-"Но аз съм сигурен, че всички успешни организации имат някаква арогантност в себе си" (сиреч не били единствените)
