[LINK] Google's WiFi bungle

[Fernando Cassia]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Richard Chirgwin
<rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> Linkers,
>
> In one of those quotes that people put in the auto-paste, one of
> Google's bits of self-serving rationalisation includes this:
>
>> someone would need to be using the network as a car passed by; and our
>> in-car WiFi equipment automatically changes channels roughly five
>> times a second.
> This is meant to imply that really, personal data collection was truly
> accidental.
>
> But - here's where I need a technologist to confirm my understanding -
> changing channels is one of those things WiFi does. Isn't "frequency
> hopping spread spectrum" in the definition?

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/inquisitor/2996

FC