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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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Re: ineffective assistance of council 2006-11-07
Anonymous
The sentence should have been 19 years.

Creeps that do this kind of thing need to have their tail feathers burned off.

9 years? Oh hell YES!! The scumbag deserves every day of it....

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