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Man Arrested for Using Open Wireless Network
DaCool42 writes "In Tampa Bay, a man has been arrested for using a wide open WiFi AP. The St. Petersburg Times has the full story. 'It's no different if I went out and bought a Microsoft program and started sharing it with everyone in my apartment. It's theft,' said Kena Lewis, spokeswoman for Bright House Networks in Orlando."
You mean the free internet I'm getting from my neighbors isn't legal? :(
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
It remains unclear what Smith was using the Wi-Fi for, to surf, play online video games, send e-mail to his grandmother, or something more nefarious.
.. or quite possibly.. ALL OF THE ABOVE!
For safeties sake lets just outlaw the internet.
air and light and time and space
No and if you keep clicking on those damn slashdot goatse links I'm seriously going to turn WPA on.
-your neighbor
Crap, and all this time I've been walking into people's homes and plugging my laptop directly into their switch.
I recommend banning Acer. Clearly they were the root cause of the problem. They built hardware that was capable of hacking an open access point.
meh
Or it's like this:
...wait, what were we talking about again?
Someone bought a wireless router to share his internet connection at home with the rest of his family, but he didn't bother to setup any security.
Then someone outside of the house connects to the wireless router to use the internet connection, without the owner of the router knowing or approving this.
how about Chevy? They built the car that let him troll around looking for a network. They I mean, they provided the means by which he kept his nefarious activities cloaked (sortof)
isnt there some kind of patriot act violation there?
Come read my stupid blagablog. Rants and Giggles
I think in this case I'd say you left a set of tools sitting in the guy's kitchen, in his way.
I have exactly the same problem, I have my laptop setup to auto-connect to the best network because it's very convienent while traveling. Then suddenly the guy in the office downstairs gets an AP, puts it on the same channel as mine (dumbass) and leaves it insecure. So I suddenly get connected to his stinking network and all my servers are unavailable. So I went down there, had a talk with him about security and for free, secured his network. 2 weeks later, it's called linksys again and it's insecure. I go down and ask him why "Oh, we had someone else come in, and we couldn't find the codes (he meant wep keys) so we just reset it. Great hu?"
Yeah, great....
So now, I have a WAP that I sat as close to his office as possible. It's on the same channel as his, it has an antenna pointing at his office, it's wide ass open, the SSID is linksys (even though it's not a linksys), and it has no connection to the internet. awe......
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
No, no. We're not talking about that. We're talking about using open wireless connections.
--Residential Interior Design