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Wardriving guilty plea in Lowe's wi-fi case
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-08-05

In what prosecutors say is likely the first criminal conviction for wardriving in the U.S., a Michigan man plead guilty Wednesday to a federal misdemeanor for using the Internet through an open wi-fi access point at a Lowe's home improvement store in suburban Detroit.

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Third guilty plea in Lowe's wi-fi case 2004-08-05
Anonymous (2 replies)
Third guilty plea in Lowe's wi-fi case 2004-08-13
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Wardriving guilty plea in Lowe's wi-fi case 2004-08-06
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Wardriving guilty plea in Lowe's wi-fi case 2004-08-06
Anonymous (2 replies)
Wardriving guilty plea in Lowe's wi-fi case 2004-08-06
Anonymous
>> 2) Wireless itself, due to being broadcasted into the air,

>> should (in my opinion) be declared public domain, as is

>> the case where you can freely record FM radio broadcasts.

>So I can record your cellphone conversations?

Cellphones are encrypted, you can't just pick them up over the airwaves without decoding them... AKA if the AP had WEP enabled this wouldn't have happened. Same goes with the phone secenerio.

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banned from computers in 2004? 2004-08-06
Anonymous
Damage vs. Sentence 2004-08-12
Anonymous (1 replies)
Re: Damage vs. Sentence 2008-05-23
Anonymous
I was arrested just recently for a similar charge. 2005-12-13
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