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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 2004-06-28
Anonymous (1 replies)
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 forth to unknown cells... Thats all

we need...

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Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion 2004-07-02
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Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion 2004-07-01
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