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Florida Man Charged For Stealing Wi-Fi

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wardriving-leads-to-warcrashing dept.

baldass_newbie writes "The Saint Pete Times has a story about Benjamin Smith III who was arrested for stealing a wi-fi signal in Saint Petersburg, Florida, where apparently wardriving is considered a third degree felony." From the article: "...xperts believe there are scores of incidents occurring undetected, sometimes to frightening effect. People have used the cloak of wireless to traffic in child pornography, steal credit card information and send death threats, according to authorities. For as worrisome as it seems, wireless mooching is easily preventable by turning on encryption or requiring passwords. The problem, security experts say, is many people do not take the time or are unsure how to secure their wireless access from intruders. Dinon knew what to do. 'But I never did it because my neighbors are older.'"

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  1. Re:Same story, different topic by Hanzo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Meanwhile, I post a story about MechWarrior/Battletech pods for sale and I am rejected...

    But hey, no grousing...

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  2. Re:It's dupe-a-licious! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yep, I emailed hime 12 minutes before the posting hit as well. Quite annoying.

  3. In other news... by ardor · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your Rights Online: Police Arrests Slashdot Authors For Dupes

    Your Rights Online: Slashdot Authors Arrested For Massive Dupe Terrorism

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  4. Re:New Slashdot Poll: by berbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    and:

    (f) Breasts
    (g) Breasts
    (h) Profit!

  5. Re:Doing something positive by Protocron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I second this. If I had any mod points I'd mod you up. This article is the same as the previous link and the comments have been all "This is a dupe."

    Therefore Thursday, July 28th 2005 will be declared: DO NOT COMMENT at SLASHDOT DAY!!!!
    This will be reposted.

    Slashdot, this is not fun. I do not read Slashdot to look at dupes. If you need to fill content, fill it with something better. FIX YOUR SYSTEM.

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  6. Eh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Zonk is just waiting for the Braille institute to mail him the hardcopy of last week's news...

  7. Re:Certainties on /. by wallykeyster · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I'm beyond caring.

    Zonk? Is that you?

  8. what can I do? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you know it's a dupe article from YESTERDAY

    novel idea here: LOOK AT YESTERDAY'S ARTICLE AND SEE WHAT'S BEEN POSTED

  9. In Korea... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Korea, only old people need unsecured WiFi.

  10. Re:It's dupe-a-licious! by Qa32 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yeah! I am not sure, who tf is modding all these comments, but there seem to be pretty bizzare results/points just like the posts themselves! Ok..If this is going to mod me down, so be it