{"id":895,"date":"2010-06-07T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T01:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=895"},"modified":"2010-06-07T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T01:05:53","slug":"conroy-stupid-statement-number-6397","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2010\/06\/conroy-stupid-statement-number-6397\/","title":{"rendered":"Conroy: Stupid Statement Number 6397"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview this morning on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/melbourne\/\">ABC Local Radio Melbourne<\/a>, our esteemed Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/australian-it\/google-street-view-cars-may-have-obtained-bank-details\/story-e6frgakx-1225876377711\">bleated out yet another of his either misinformed statements<\/a>, complete misunderstandings, or out-and-out untruths.<\/p>\n<p>In regards to the recent ruckus he has been creating over <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/2010\/05\/the-privacy-commission-on-google\/\">Google&#8217;s inadvertent collection of data from WiFi networks<\/a>, he had this to say (audio download <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mpegmedia.abc.net.au\/local\/melbourne\/201006\/r579572_3632387.mp3\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve been collecting information from Wi-Fi&#8217;s that aren&#8217;t protected, and so conceivably, it&#8217;s possible that as Google drove past your home, if you didn&#8217;t have the password protection, and you were typing, err, you were doing your online banking, passing personal information, in a transaction, as they drove past, they could have captured that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Minister, banking sites use this thing called &#8220;SSL&#8221; or &#8220;Secure Sockets Layer&#8221; to ENCRYPT data in communications between themselves and people running internet banking sessions &#8211; whether or not their Wi-Fi network is encrypted is IRRELEVANT.<\/p>\n<p>Are you wrong, completely stupid, ignorant, misleading the public, trying to scare people, lying, or all of the above?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview this morning on ABC Local Radio Melbourne, our esteemed Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, bleated out yet another of his either misinformed statements, complete misunderstandings, or out-and-out untruths. In regards to the recent ruckus he has been creating over Google&#8217;s inadvertent collection of data from WiFi networks, he had this to say (audio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[384,404],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-nocleanfeed","tag-openinternet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}