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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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Re: Thank you Lowes 2005-10-11
Anonymous
one they can not use wep with barcode scanners that they have. Two the wlan should be seprate from the lan. wep and wpa suck and can be hacked. They should have done a mac address only and segmented the zones and access into the network. Lowes should be find heavily for not being secure and havi...

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