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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]
Nothing silly in checking your email or not. This is an exemplary gesture just to show the community that they are active. I am very disappointed in this approach. You are innocent until proven guilty, but with cyber laws, they rely on logs collected from basic access points that have little or no integrity based on a technology that is very unreliable and hard to secure. As for a fellow wardriver and warflyer (yes you heard me right), I totally understand the credit card part.

Anyone stealling should be trialed, with the associated consequences.

I just pray that authorities don't confuse discovery and knowledge with theft...

Deijmaster

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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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