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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 pleads guilty in Lowes WiFi hacks 2004-06-11
Anonymous Coward
Unfortunately it takes stunts like this to get folks to secure their networks, wireless and otherwise. We keep jumping up and down on the soapbox and the bosses keep on ignoring us until something happens like this. Then they want to know why. Age old story which will continue to the end of time....

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