Google issued police searches criminal
Thanks to Google's search engine , the police were able to prove the guilt of Matthew Schuster, an employee of Alpha Computer Service, who was fired and offended. After being put outside, Matthew tried to hack into the company's wireless network.
His fatal mistake was using Google - Schuster typed phrases in the query line like: "how to broadcast interference over wifi 2.4 GHZ", "wireless networks 2.4 interference" and "interference over wifi 2.4 GHZ". It also killed him: search queries appeared in court as evidence of guilt. As a result, Schuster was sentenced to 15 months in prison and a $ 20 thousand fine.
How was it proved that all these requests were introduced by Matthew Schuster? Security Lab assumes that Google either records the IP addresses of visitors, or registers search queries of users who have registered with various services.
His fatal mistake was using Google - Schuster typed phrases in the query line like: "how to broadcast interference over wifi 2.4 GHZ", "wireless networks 2.4 interference" and "interference over wifi 2.4 GHZ". It also killed him: search queries appeared in court as evidence of guilt. As a result, Schuster was sentenced to 15 months in prison and a $ 20 thousand fine.
How was it proved that all these requests were introduced by Matthew Schuster? Security Lab assumes that Google either records the IP addresses of visitors, or registers search queries of users who have registered with various services.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/2432/
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