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Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications
BiggsTheCat writes "A number of news sources are reporting that a Toronto man is the first to be charged with "theft of communications" (Canadian Criminal Code S. 342.1) for downloading child pornography using someone else's residential wireless network. The "War Driver" was caught naked from the waist down driving the wrong way down a one-way street, with a laptop in hand. The Edmonton Sun warns that 'War Driving ... is becoming more and more common among perverts trying to avoid online detection'. Yeah."
I thought Michael Jackson was driving through Las Vegas last night, not Canada.
And why did you staple the trout to the RAM?
You'd think he would be more careful. Driving the wrong way up a one way street, no pants, whacking off to kiddie porn? This guy was asking for it!
The "War Driver" was caught naked from the waist down driving the wrong way down a one-way street, with a laptop in hand. I'm trying to figure out how he was driving if he had the laptop in one hand and, well you know where I'm going with this...
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
LOL.....you sure he didn't have something else in hand?
Basil
"with a laptop in hand."
That's not a laptop, officer.
Karnal
Theft, child porn, indecent exposure, and a traffic violation all at the same time? Surely he could have killed someone and committed some sort of business crime to complete the spectrum of criminal activity.
"America Done Weirdly"
-- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
Fuck, I'm on someone else's wireless network right now.
--#!
So he can whack off, use a laptop for hacking AND drive a car at the same time?! He must be a very flexible man!
This story should be rated M. It has many sexual references, including:
"laid"
"busting"
"police found the driver--with no pants on--" (so they find that guy but couldn't find their pants first?)"
"serious ramifications"
Check out this author's hidden meanings! I think we know who's going to be applying for that spot of porn viewer at that PD! "I'm just doing research for my next article!"
Cover your eyes and click this link!
"The "War Driver" was caught naked from the waist down driving the wrong way down a one-way street, with a laptop in hand [downloading child pornography]."
I should think that perhaps the "Theft of Communications" charge is the least of this individual's problems. That's really one for the record books there, almost to the point of being a publicity stunt of some sort. Naked from the waist down, driving the wrong way on a one-way street, using a laptop, and downloading child pornography. What do you say to something like that? I mean that for each person.
[Suspect] "There a... problem officer?"
[Officer] "Do you know why I pulled you over?"
-blank stare-
[Officer] "You were driving the wrong way down this one-way street."
[Suspect] "Oh my, well I'm sorry about that, officer..."
[Officer] "Well, I'm afraid I'm going to have to write you a... hey, where are your pants?!"
[Suspect] "Oh.. well.. I'm getting them clea..." -gets cut off by cop-
[Officer] "What is that? Are you using a laptop computer while driving sir??"
[Suspect] "Well, I uhh..." -gets cut off again-
[Officer] "What the HELL is that??!! Is that child pornography??!! Oh God..
[Suspect] "No, no! It's not what you think!"
[Officer] "Just where the hell are you getting that from?! Oh, so you're connected to someone's wireless internet from here???"
-Cop thinks to himself: "how the hell am I going to write this one up?"
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Excuse me, whose rights online? I know I don't feel the least bit oppressed.
Am I to believe that there's a large enough segment of Slashdot users who would drive around downloading child porn to make this a "your rights online" issue?
Y2K Compliant since the late 1890s
...Warjacking?
wearing a seatbelt?
Sig it.
In the newspaper, after listing a number of really stupid things he found, one officer said "I don't make this stuff up." Yep, they were that bad. (One person was watching a movie -- at highway speed.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
The "War Driver" was caught naked from the waist down driving the wrong way down a one-way street
Driving the wrong way down a one-way street?
HOW SICK CAN YOU GET?
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
sometimes it's very handy that people keep their wireless networks open. :)
a few weeks ago we moved into a new office, and of course the phone company was too late with fixing our ADSL connection. So instead of losing two days of work, we could "borrow" the connection from two wireless networks to choose from. One was DHCP and the other I had to sniff the network to find out which IP address I could use
Ricardo.