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Katu.com: Wireless piggybacking lands man in trouble

Katu.com Wireless piggybacking lands man in trouble

""He doesn't buy anything," Manager Emily Pranger says about the man she ended up calling 911 about. "It's not right for him to come and use it."

Pranger says 20-year-old Alexander Eric Smith of Battle Ground sat in the parking lot in his truck for three months, spending hours at a time piggybacking on the coffee shop's wireless Internet service for free.

When deputies told Smith to knock it off, he came back and is now charged with theft of services."

TechWeb Illinois Man Fined For Piggybacking On Wi-Fi Service
"In Illinois, riding piggyback on someone else's Wi-Fi could cost you some money.

David M. Kauchak, 32, pleaded guilty this week in Winnebago County to remotely accessing someone else's computer system without permission, the Rockford Register Star newspaper reported. A Winnebago County judge fined Kauchak $250 and sentenced him to one year of court supervision".

""We just want to get the word out that it is a crime. We are prosecuting it, and people need to take precautions," Assistant State's Attorney Tom Wartowski told the newspaper."

St. Petersburg Times Wi-Fi cloaks a new breed of intruder
"Richard Dinon saw the laptop's muted glow through the rear window of the SUV parked outside his home. He walked closer and noticed a man inside.

Then the man noticed Dinon and snapped his computer shut.

Maybe it's census work, the 28-year-old veterinarian told his girlfriend. An hour later, Dinon left to drive her home. The Chevy Blazer was still there, the man furtively hunched over his computer.

Dinon returned at 11 p.m. and the men repeated their strange dance.

Fifteen minutes later, Dinon called police."

CTV Police warn of Wi-Fi theft by porn downloaders
"Toronto police have charged a man with theft of telecommunications in a bizarre case that involves downloading child pornography from a laptop in a moving car and using other people's computer networks to obtain the images.

Locating insecure networks is known as "War Driving." It's the practise of driving around in a vehicle with a Wi-Fi enabled laptop scanning for vulnerable signals, usually in an effort to steal Internet bandwidth."

CFRA Cops Urge Computer Users to Protect Wireless Lap Tops
"Ontario Provincial Police charged a 25-year-old man last week under Section 326 of the Criminal Code - "Theft of Communications."

The OPP allege the man was using his lap top computer to steal a wireless Internet connection in Morrisburg."

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