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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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banned from computers in 2004? 2004-08-06
Anonymous
Wardriving guilty plea in Lowe's wi-fi case 2004-08-09
Anonymous
Just goes to show that if you that the big guy will always try to crush the little guy, guilty or not, to save face. How the hell can you now get sentanced based on what kind of damage something could have potentially done? 2.5 million in damage because of stolen credit card numbers. talk about getting the screw...

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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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