Wardriving for Google

If google captured unencrypted data while driving down your street, who cares?
Seriously. Who cares?
I agree, google should not have been capturing peoples traffic and storing it but...

While driving past your house at 30 MPH, how much data could google capture from your UN-secured wireless router? Maybe about 0.8 seconds worth?
If a router is secured properly the data would be completely worthless.

It has been reported that passwords were discovered in the data captures from google. I don't think this is a problem because if a password was discovered, then the password was sent in clear text over the internet. Don't send passwords in clear text!!!
If a website does not offer a secure login, don't use it.

My conclusion

People who:
1. Do not secure their wireless router.
2. Send passwords in clear text.
3. Have been connected to the internet long enough to know how to use online banking, facebook and twitter without knowing a thing about security...

Do not have the right to complain about having their data and passwords captured by google or anyone within range of their wireless signal. (maybe your neighbor who has been capturing your passwords since you started using your wireless router???)

Recovered deleted photos

Today I was approached by my neighbor about images that had been deleted from her digital camera. She asked if there was any way to get them back. She said there was only a dozen or so pictures taken before she deleted them. Before these photos were taken she had formatted the card so I assumed that only a dozen or so photos could be recovered. So using some linux tools and a strong cup of coffee I was able to recover 314 photos at 733 megabites.

Change

I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.

The Matrix 1999