Nov 13 2003
More details than I expected to see in the news
I’ve been pleasantly surprised this morning. Security Focus has published an online article about the wardriving case I wrote about earlier this week, and they have more details than I ever would have expected to see. You can read the article here.
This article makes it pretty clear to me that the gentlemen in question are fools and deserve to have the FBI slap them down hard. Not that I have definite opinions on the matter, mind you. It looks like this was a case of two guys exploring the capabilities of technology, and when they found a Lowe’s store they could exploit, they went from seekers of knowledge to seekers of credit card numbers. It’s always the stoopid hackers that get caught. The smart ones are still out there.