Nebraska Sheriff Wardriving, Sending Letters About Unsecured Wi-Fi

An anonymous reader sends this quote from JournalStar.com: "The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office has seen an increase in scammers using unsecured Wi-Fi connections to steal identities and mask their crimes during the past six months, Sheriff Terry Wagner said. ... So deputies spent the past few weeks finding unsecure connections and sending 40 to 50 letters to let people know about the potential dangers of strangers accessing their network connections. 'You're just opening yourself up for a series of potential pitfalls,' Chief Deputy Jeff Bliemeister said. ... Bliemeister said only businesses like coffee shops that offer Internet connections to customers need unsecured Internet connections.

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Re:How do they know exactlywhere to send the lette

[segin]

Google says the population of Lincoln is about 260,000 total. There are apartment complexes in Los Angeles with nearly that many people.

There are conversion vans in Los Angeles with that many Mexicans in them

Re:Law Enforcement at Work

[cayenne8]

Those of us in Maricopa County can worry about our sheriff; the rest of the country can worry about theirs. It's a local elected office. I do not understand the national media attention.

With that said, I do not support Arpaio or his policies and do not vote for him.

Hey, I feel for ya'll out in AZ....and I did live out there awhile back too.

With the federal govt giving absolutely no assistance in trying to help with the porous border there, well, I applaud ya'll doing whatever you have to to try to curb the problems with being for all purposes, invaded by foreign natiionals.

The problems with crime and the weight on schools and other social services is massive.

Good luck out there....whether you agree with everything Arpaio does or not...at least you can say he's trying to do "something" about the problems....the feds aren't doing their job, so ya'll have to try to do it yourselves.

Re:Proactive Police Work Preventing Victimization

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sorry to say that you're trying to argue with a brick wall.

You have encountered a person on one of the far ends of the Rape Culture debate. To them, facts, statistics, common sense are all secondary to the fact that nobody asks to be raped (by definition; if you ask, it's not rape) to the point that facts, statistics and common sense may as well not exist.

Your reply that a woman has a greater chance of being raped if she falls asleep naked, spread-eagle, in an alley (than most other situations a woman may find herself in, presumably) are likely to be construed as the statements of a Rape Apologist who is simply blaming the victim.

Good luck.