Microsoft engineer exploits Google Maps to intercept FBI and Secret Service calls

It seems Bing Maps is also vulnerable to the same kind of exploit.

Trust on Google is the problem, let's not call it a Google flaw entirely. What's stopping anyone from registering a website and putting fake business details and make it rank higher than the original one. There are millions who won't know the difference between .gov & .com websites. Does that mean the whole internet is broken ? Yes, probably.

He will never fly again.

Even given that Vallywag/Gawker is the source cited for this blogspam, the title is still inexcusable.

Some spammer who allegedly used to work for Microsoft created fake FBI/Secret Service entries using Google MapMaker and added his phone # to them, then recorded the calls that were made to him by people thinking they were speaking to the FBI.

Substitute "Microsoft engineer" with "spammer" and "exploits" with "spams".

What's even more ridiculous is that the Gawker piece basically boils down to "spammer: good, Google: evil": http://valleywag.gawker.com/how-a-hacker-intercepted-fbi-and...

A hero? hah. More like a vandal.

Since when is that the response you get from secret service and FBI? Does that mean that white hat hackers will get the same treatment?