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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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Lowes WiFi hacks 2004-06-10
Pilgrim
Lowes is one of how many companies with a poor security ? These days finding other people's credit card informations seems as easy as finding a radio post station on your tooner. Soon enough you just might find your informations on some hack webpage.

It's a way of becoming a public person, howev...

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