Google Took Emails And Passwords From Computers

This article is a sack of meep. They were recording all the wirelessly transmitted data, of the kind that anyone with an antenna can receive. In order for G to have recorded your passwords, you'd have to run an unsecured WiFi access point (which is dumb, but happens). Moreover, any sensitive information is further encrypted with SSL (for sites which you access via https://), which is an even tougher nut to crack.

So no, they don't got your 'passwords,' you sensationalist pricks.

Took -- literally took -- as in, walked in every single house, kicked grandma in the gut just as she was getting up to see who it was, rifled through the computers inside the master bedroom until it found the most sensitive of hotmail- and AIM-borne tidbits, then sauntered out, like a meeping thief.

People who have unsecured wireless networks should expect their meep to be stolen.

It's neat how this article progresses: Google SPYING on you with THEIR EVIL cameras. (neglect the fact that the UK has the most CC cameras per capita in the world) Then Google is also connecting to YOUR wireless network. (neglect the fact that they're only doing so to determine the SSID and MAC of the router) Although this connectivity is for only a fifth of a second, they've STOLEN from YOU. Then they state that it is unknown how many householders have unsecured wireless networks, they take the bold step of estimating the number of stolen emails and passwords to be in the MILLIONS.

Just damned good journalism

Isn't the dailymail part of the Murdoch family of meep 'news' organizations? If not, it's sure trying to be.

apparently the swarm is upset by these english people who dare challenge google

I like coffee mixed with hot cocoa.

Holy meep! You too!?! Try mixing your coffee with honey!

I don't brook no coffee adulteration.

The only thing to mix with your coffee is dark Jamaican rum!

Took -- literally took -- as in, walked in every single house, kicked grandma in the gut just as she was getting up to see who it was, rifled through the computers inside the master bedroom until it found the most sensitive of hotmail- and AIM-borne tidbits, then sauntered out, like a meeping thief.

haha, holy meep.

Google is probably the least evil tech-corp in existence. This entire story is bababullmeep written for tea-party-types.

Also, Dismas' bait reeks just slightly less than his mothers bullmeep meep.

meepninja: Isn't the dailymail part of the Murdoch family of meep 'news' organizations?

I thought exactly this. Turns out that that's the Sun (thanks Google!).