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   wifi

   

   jon, Nov 11th, 2003 @ 3:01pm

   
   

   poeple dont hack wifi for accessing info they do it for high speed connection which I feel you dont incript you wifi then I feel its legal and I feel real soon poeple will cach on and then start sharing wifi and internet to cut the price of the high speed

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   Hackers?

   

   Anonymous Coward, Nov 11th, 2003 @ 5:06pm

   
   

   WiFi Hackers? You mean they were writing code to improve the WiFi standards? Good.
   
   No? Oh, you mean CRackers! I see.
   
   WTF was Lowes doing using WiFi anyway? Although I have heard some scary stories about telling machines being linked via 802.11b
   
   So instead of the sysadmins getting fired, these crackers are going to jail?

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   Re: Hackers?

   

   Mike (profile), Nov 11th, 2003 @ 5:20pm

   
   

   As discussed here previously, we use the term hacker in the common usage of the word. I understand the debate over hacker/cracker - but the folks who get religious about it need to keep up with the times. It can be used to refer to good or bad hackers, and in this case it appears they were malicious hackers, which is how we described them.
   
   As for the security problems at Lowe's, that's exactly what we said. However, if the hackers did all the things described, they are still guilty of committing a crime. That doesn't mean the sys admin shouldn't get fired - but it doesn't mean these *hackers* deserve to be ignored either. If the accusations are true, they did a lot more than just jumping onto the network.

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   telcodata.us down

   

   Anonymous Coward, Nov 12th, 2003 @ 8:45am

   
   

   The most annoying bit to me about this is that Timmins operated telcodata.us. Is there another NPA-NXX => placename service online somewhere?

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   Bill, Mar 5th, 2008 @ 6:03am

   
   

   Wardriving and free internet, technically falls under the same law that its not illegal to steal air or things transmitted through air, thus its up to the admin of a network, to secure that network, if they dont want leachers. Wardrivers are not the problem, its people with more malicious intent, that actually hack and break in to a system. If you have a laptop and wifi card, odds are your your router might have had problems, and your laptop cant connect, so it connects to the next best available wifi network, possibly your neighbors wifi if its not encrypted. Does that mean you just did a crime? Encrypt your damn networks and you dont need to worry about leachers you noobs. Wardriving is not a crime!!!

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