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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
deijmaster (at) hotmail (dot) com [email concealed]
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
What a waste of resources (was: Wardriving guilty plea in Lowe's wi-fi case) 2004-08-12
flat1ine
Why did the Lowe's network admins simply secure the WAP? Did they not know how to do it?

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I was arrested just recently for a similar charge. 2005-12-13
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