…Google was supposedly buying up unused fiber and spare backbone bandwidth like crazyâ€â€enough to move some serious, serious data. Then yesterday our man Om pointed out IP Democracy’s report that Google has been further reviewing bids for building a nationwide DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) fiber network, one theoretically capable of terabit speeds, and at the bargain basement price of under $100 millionâ€â€apparently this thing could even be up and running in months, according to their sources…hence speculation of a WiMax or WiFi network. Now today it’s come out that yes, they actually have a piece of working WiFi VPN software to download called Google Secure Access, and that it “is only available at certain locations in the San Francisco Bay Areaâ€?â€â€coincidence that that’s where they happen to have a test bed of location-tracking WiFi hotspots to provide Google-local based ads on top of free WiFi access? And knowing Google, of course they’d want VPN software running on “GoogleNet,â€? what kind of PR nightmare would it be for them having millions across the nation getting online on open WiFi on account of the “do no harmâ€? company?…
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October 11, 2005 at 3:21 pm
Google - reinventing spyware? I was thinking again today about the story about Google buying up a bunch of fiber and ...