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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 2004-07-04
Anonymous
Aren't the 'evil' poor people are still using stenagography to communicate?

After 911 when the axis of evil - specifically Herr Ashcroft - asked hackers to support their efforts by attacking terrorist websites I figured what the fug; I can attack some network assets with the express permission of...

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