it all could've been avoided if he'd just turned WEP on
Sunday, July 17, 2005
Came across an interesting article today about a man being prosecuted for leeching bandwidth from a wireless home network that wasn't his.
Apparently in the US, there is a third degree felony charge for unauthorized access to a computer network, and this dumbass is the first to get hit by it.
I have heard that warchalking is quite the rage amongst the hacker crowd, but I wonder if they'll be so quick to try it once they find out they might go to prison for it.
Personally I think the whole thing is ridiculous.
First, what harm is there in it, if the user was only using their connection and didn't have any network access, aside from a drop in bandwidth.
And second, what kind of idiot goes to the trouble of setting up a wireless network, but is too lazy to turn on an encryption protocol and/or MAC filtering? Serves him right I think.
Check out the complete article here.
posted by raistlinsghost at 7/17/2005 12:22:00 AM
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