If you do not suffer from paranoia - this does not mean that Google does not follow you ...

    The offended former Alpha Computer Service employee was accused of trying to hack after Google searches showed that he was trying to search the web for technical information on how to hack the company's systems.

    Matthew Schuster previously worked for Alpha Computer Service's CWWIS home wireless network support service .
    After being fired, he used client information to gain free access to the company's wireless network.

    Using Google services was a fatal mistake for Schuster, because the contents of his search interrogations were recorded by Google Search, and later transferred to the police. Schuster searched on Googleinformation such as “how to broadcast interference over wifi 2.4 GHZ”, “wireless networks 2.4 interference” and “interference over wifi 2.4 GHZ”, which were used in court as the main evidence of his guilt. As a result, Schuster was sentenced to 15 months in prison and a $ 20,000 fine.

    The question remains, how was it proved that Schuster was the one to fulfill the requests? Most likely, either Google registers the IP addresses of users who entered the search query, or registers the search queries of users who have registered with various Google services .

    This is not the first case of covert surveillance of users and the transfer of information about individual citizens to the authorities by Google. In 2005, a US resident was convicted of killing his wife, who had previously searched Google for information such as “neck,” “snap,” “break,” and “hold.”

    Fuh ... It’s good that I don’t use foreign Google, which gives information about people to the authorities, how good it is to have a native Yasha ...

    - you say. But come to your senses !, Russia, it seems, too, is a country of not perfect democracy ... And who knows what information is stored by other search engines, including ours? ..

    Original article: www.securitylab.ru/news/283281.php

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