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Michael
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 Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject: Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal |
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Not really related to EVDO, but I found this interesting...
| Quote: | Wed Jul 6, 8:15 PM ET
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Police have arrested a man for using someone else's wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice.
Benjamin Smith III, 41, faces a pretrial hearing this month following his April arrest on charges of unauthorized access to a computer network, a third-degree felony.
Police say Smith admitted using the Wi-Fi signal from the home of Richard Dinon, who had noticed Smith sitting in an SUV outside Dinon's house using a laptop computer.
The practice is so new that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement doesn't even keep statistics, according to the St. Petersburg Times, which reported Smith's arrest this week.
Innocuous use of other people's unsecured Wi-Fi networks is common, though experts say that plenty of illegal use also goes undetected: such as people sneaking on others' networks to traffic in child pornography, steal credit card information and send death threats.
Security experts say people can prevent such access by turning on encryption or requiring passwords, but few bother or are unsure how to do so.
Wi-Fi, short for Wireless Fidelity, has enjoyed prolific growth since 2000. Millions of households have set up wireless home networks that give people like Dinon the ability to use the Web from their backyards but also reach the house next door or down the street.
It's not clear why Smith was using Dinon's network. Prosecutors declined to comment, and a working phone number could not be located for Smith. |
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prasad_kodaypak
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:24 pm Post subject: Re: Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal |
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Interesting! definitely stresses the need for using higher layers of encryption as Wireless networks evolve. This is even so more with unlicensed technologies like WiFi and others.
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Jimincalifornia
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Let's see now. Somebody set up a wireless router that's spewing an electronic signal into the air that basically says "FREE WIRELESS INTERNET HERE, COME AND GET IT!" and then somebody gets arrested for using it?
I suspect one in 12 Americans may be geeky enough to smell a rat here. I sure as hell hope so anyways. |
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SL10
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Location: Denver, Colorado
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| Jimincalifornia wrote: | Let's see now. Somebody set up a wireless router that's spewing an electronic signal into the air that basically says "FREE WIRELESS INTERNET HERE, COME AND GET IT!" and then somebody gets arrested for using it?
I suspect one in 12 Americans may be geeky enough to smell a rat here. I sure as hell hope so anyways. |
And to add here is that places like McDonalds and Winchells are now offering WiFi services for free, at least in the Denver Colorado area. But, I do agree better security should be used in home and business networks.
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