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Long prison term for Lowe's wi-fi hacker
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-12-16

A 21-year-old Michigan man was sentenced to nine years in federal prison Wednesday in federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina for his role in a failed scheme to steal credit card numbers from the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores by taking advantage of an unsecured wi-fi network at a store in suburban Detroit.

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ineffective assistance of council 2004-12-16
junctionboxmodeming
To the Lowe's idiot who got 108 month prison sentence:

dude i don't know or care about your criminal history, but your plea bargain was a robbery/rape. you were lucky to get the "assistance" departure for helping lowes, but that's only 2 points. what screwed you is you stupidly agreed to those ...

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