Following Comodo’s improper issuance of certificates to sites such as Google, we have now been made publically aware of the same thing happening at the Certificate Authority diginotar.nl. A certificate for *.google.com was issued, and it appears that the recipient is the Iranian government. It is currently unclear why this certificate was issued, but it is…

As Google Street View cars passed by recently, they not only collected geolocation data and pictures of the streets, but also recorded information received from wireless hotspots. Google collected data not just from public wifi locations, but from private individual’s wireless routers as well.