Jim Henry wrote:
> I disagree with thew author of that article in that it is not a crime to > just connect to an unsecured wireless network (in the U.S.A. anyway) if you > do not use the connection in a malicious way. If I'm mistaken I'd sure like > to see the specific section of the law being violated. Many States have Computer Crime Laws on the books that make it a crime to connect to unsecured networks. Play if you want to but you will end up a guest of the "Gray Bar" hotel. I'm seeing more and more requests for RF Engineers to track these guys down using RF finger printing. ----------------------------------------------------------------- War driver pleads guilty in Lowes WiFi hacks By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Jun 4 2004 1:04PM The remaining defendant, 23-year-old Paul Timmins, is scheduled for arraignment on June 28th. In 2000, as a juvenile, Salcedo was one of the first to be charged under Michigan's state computer crime law, for allegedly hacking a local ISP. According to statements provided by Timmins and Botbyl following their arrest, as recounted in an FBI affidavit filed in the case, the pair first stumbled across an unsecured wireless network at the Southfield, Michigan Lowe's last spring, while "driving around with laptop computers looking for wireless Internet connections," i.e., wardriving. The two said they did nothing malicious with the network at that time. http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8835 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
