“Earlier this week, Bryan Seely, a network engineer and one-time Marine, played me recordings of two phone calls. The calls were placed by unwitting citizens to the FBI office in San Francisco and to the Secret Service in Washington, D.C. Neither the callers nor the FBI or Secret Service personnel who answered the phone realized that Seely was secretly recording them. He used Google Maps to do it.

“Yesterday, Gizmodo reported on how easy it was for Seely to spam Google Maps with fake listings. Seely has revealed to Valleywag a more troubling way to exploit the Google’s laissez-faire attitude toward verification—loopholes the international search megalith has known about for at least four years.”

Hat tip to MrMild

via How a Hacker Intercepted FBI and Secret Service Calls With Google Maps.