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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: Wardriver pleads guilty in Lowes WiFi hacks 2006-06-02
Anonymous
I agree. I have seen for years these network engineer wanna-bes that take things on themselves and try to score brownie points by doing doing like implementing a wireless network. Any idiot can do it and they do. They want to impress their managers. The mere fact that Lowes discovered this so qu...

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