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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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Wrong analogy - Wardriving guilty plea in Lowe's wi-fi case 2004-08-12
Anonymous
>.> 1) Open wireless access points are like leaving your keys

>> in the door to your house or car and walking away: they're

>> asking for "intruders".

>Yet the intruders would still be guilty of >breaking and entering, regardless.

An unfair analogy, to say the least. Many wirelessly enab...

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