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Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-06-25

A Maryland man with a grudge against a Connecticut-based patent firm used unsecured wireless networks at homes and businesses in the Washington D.C. area to penetrate the company's computers and deliver untraceable threats and extortion demands, until an FBI surveillance team caught him in the act.

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Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion 2004-06-26
Anonymous
haha, see *that* is the kind of evidence the FBI needs, is someone sending in a threat and saying to MAKE THE CHECK OUT IN THEIR NAME!! hahaha, anyone can trace someone that stupid - no technology required :)...

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Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion 2004-06-28
Anonymous (1 replies)
"Make the check payable to...."

bawhahahahaha! What a maroon! ...

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Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion 2004-07-04
Anonymous
yeah, what a maroon! I hate purple people too! moron....

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Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion 2004-06-29
Anonymous
May that guy have a nice 10x10 padded cell :P...

Make check payable to guy who has no idea how to issue a demand and not get caught....

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Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion 2004-06-29
Anonymous (1 replies)
omg, this guy sounds like a real nutcase!

wtf was he going to do with hand grenades

and ricin? And 17 million dollars? Yeah...

right! This guy gives war-drivers a bad

name.. 'P next thing you know terrorists

will be using open and unsecured 802.11

APs for transfering sensitive data back

and ...

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Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion 2004-07-02
Anonymous (1 replies)
What makes you think they're not doing it now?...

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Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion 2004-07-04
Anonymous
Aren't the 'evil' poor people are still using stenagography to communicate?

After 911 when the axis of evil - specifically Herr Ashcroft - asked hackers to support their efforts by attacking terrorist websites I figured what the fug; I can attack some network assets with the express permission of...

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Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion 2004-07-01
Anonymous (1 replies)
Why can't we, for once, have a technology-using criminal know SOMETHING about technology. These idiots who obviously know nothing about wireless networks, or even basic investigation, even putting the idiocy of asking for the check in his name aside, we need some criminals with at least some knowle...

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Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion 2004-07-03
Anonymous
Uhh, you may want to check out who wrote the article :) Of course that was back in the day now I guess...

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Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion 2004-07-03
Anonymous
This guy is a total idiot, who would put their name in a ransom demand? If your going to use wireless networks, why not stick to one location, that way whoever lives there ets blamed instead of multiple locations where they know it can't be those people... Cracking into a secured network, which is f...

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