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Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-06-25

A Maryland man with a grudge against a Connecticut-based patent firm used unsecured wireless networks at homes and businesses in the Washington D.C. area to penetrate the company's computers and deliver untraceable threats and extortion demands, until an FBI surveillance team caught him in the act.

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Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion 2004-06-26
Anonymous
haha, see *that* is the kind of evidence the FBI needs, is someone sending in a threat and saying to MAKE THE CHECK OUT IN THEIR NAME!! hahaha, anyone can trace someone that stupid - no technology required :)...

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