Techdirt: Focusing On Google Getting Emails & Passwords Via Data Collection Misses The Point: Anyone Could Have Done It
‘If you understand the technology of what was happening, it would collect mostly useless fragments of info, but if it was passing by at the time that someone was transmitting something like that in an unencrypted format, then of course it would collect that bit of info. …this data is out in the open for anyone to take. Google didn’t “hack” anything, or do anything particularly different than what tons of people could easily do this very second.’
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