{"id":8946,"date":"2010-10-25T15:51:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T15:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/what_if_someone_is_trying_to_steal_this_data.html"},"modified":"2010-10-25T15:51:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T15:51:53","slug":"what-if-someone-is-trying-to-steal-this-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/what-if-someone-is-trying-to-steal-this-data.html","title":{"rendered":"What if Someone is Trying to Steal This Data?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google apologized for inadvertently <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13506_3-20020499-17.html?tag=nl.e703\">collecting<\/a> passwords, phone numbers, emails and other personal information with its street view cars. My question is what if they or worse &ndash; a malicious party is actually trying to get their hands on this data? Since we know Google has scanned WiFi networks all over the world, wouldn&rsquo;t it be nice if they could let the owners of unsafe WiFi networks know that their unencrypted, personal information is floating around the airwaves for anyone to tap into?<\/p>\n<p>See Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/satellite.tmcnet.com\/topics\/satellite\/articles\/110372-three-percent-germans-say-ne-to-google-street.htm\">Three Percent of Germans Say &#8216;Nein&#8217; to Google Street View<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google apologized for inadvertently collecting passwords, phone numbers, emails and other personal information with its street view cars. My question is what if they or worse &ndash; a malicious party is actually trying to get their hands on this data? Since we know Google has scanned WiFi networks all over the world, wouldn&rsquo;t it be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,168,170,171,160,163,156,118,174,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}