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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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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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