http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/marius_milne/ By Robert McMillan Threat Level Wired.com May 1, 2012 The author of a software program credited with bringing war-driving to the masses was Google’s Engineer Doe, the author of the company’s controversial Street View Wi-Fi logging program, according to a report in The New York Times. The Google engineer who built the software, identified until now only as “Engineer Doe,” is Marius Milner, the Times said, citing an unnamed former state investigator working on a Street View inquiry. The practice of driving around cities and logging open wireless access points is known as war-driving, and that’s essentially what Google ended up doing with its Street View program. In the early days of Wi-Fi, it was a way to find open connections that could be used to get online for free. Milner, a software engineer with Google since 2003, is well known within the wireless-hacking community, according to Brad Haines, an independent security consultant known as RenderMan who has spoken on wireless hacking. In an audit made public in 2010, Google called its Wi-Fi logging software Gstumbler. In retrospect, that should have been a tip-off. [...] _______________________________________________ LayerOne Security Conference May 26-27, Clarion Hotel, Anaheim, CA http://www.layerone.orgReceived on Tue May 01 2012 - 23:48:43 PDT
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