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Wardriver pleads guilty in Lowe's WiFi hacks
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-06-04

In a rare wireless hacking conviction, a Michigan man entered a guilty plea Friday in federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina for his role in a 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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Wardriver? Irresponsible journalism! 2004-06-07
Anonymous
This person was NOT a wardriver. Wardrving is NOT "driving around with laptop computers looking for wireless Internet connections".

Wardrivers, rather, drive around scanning for and gathering the locations of wireless networks, often for mapping purposes. The distinction here is wardrivers do not...

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