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Google’s BP moment: The WiFi spying incident

While it doesn’t quite rank up there with dumping 100’s of millions of gallons of crude oil into the ocean while your CEO goes yachting, Google’s huge WiFi spying "oops" may become the search giant’s BP moment.
To recap: Last month, Google admitted that its Street View vans — the camera-festooned vehicles that roam [...]

Emru Townsend

It is one of the great regrets of my life that it took me so long to get to know Emru Townsend, and that I will never have the opportunity to know him better.
I’d known about Emru for years. He was part of PC World’s extended family of misfits and misanthropes, otherwise known as the [...]