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Microsoft engineer exploits Google Maps openness to intercept FBI & Secret Service calls

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It’s not just fictitious towns you have to look out for on Google Maps: Microsoft engineer and former Marine Bryan Seely demonstrated to ValleyWag how he was able to exploit the open nature of the product to intercept phone calls to both the FBI and Secret Service.

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The technique Seely used was incredibly simple … 
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