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Wardriving guilty plea in Lowe's wi-fi case
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-08-05

In what prosecutors say is likely the first criminal conviction for wardriving in the U.S., a Michigan man plead guilty Wednesday to a federal misdemeanor for using the Internet through an open wi-fi access point at a Lowe's home improvement store in suburban Detroit.

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Wardriving guilty plea in Lowe's wi-fi case 2004-08-06
Anonymous
I think a better analogy might be turning on your AM radio and picking up your neighbors phone call.

Think of this possiblity....some naive person fires up their wifi enabled XP laptop in the parking lot. Let us imagine that they have it setup to use any available network...they have a cluttered...

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