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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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Long prison term for Lowe's wi-fi hacker 2004-12-19
Anonymous
everybody with a wi-fi card connects to some poor unsecured slobs network just to see..., this kid was the one who got robbed of many years of his life for $0 dollars in damage, I agree that he should be punished but 9 years, come on! Sentences for those you steal hundreds of other's identities, ru...

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