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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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Damage vs. Sentence 2004-08-12
Anonymous
Think for a moment about the relation between the actual harm (six credit card numbers stolen, none of them used, and the cost for the company for intrusion analysis and cleanup/repair of their systems - maybe other backdoors installed) versus sentence - 10 years up.

This is US-American madness.
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