Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion

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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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 fairly simple, and staying in one location would be the best plan... I just can't stop laughing now...

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