Dec 21 2004
Lowe’s Hackers Sentenced
SecurityFocus HOME News: Long prison term for Lowe’s wi-fi hacker
Continuing the thread of ‘Whatever happened to that case?’. These two gentlemen sat in the parking lot of a Lowe’s store, capturing credit card numbers on an unprotected wireless network.
I’ve done plenty of war driving myself, but I’ve never felt the need to hack any of the open networks I’ve found. I’ve been afraid more and more that even my passive scanning might become illegal because of cases like this. I can imagine it now, “You, with the GPS and laptop, out of the car now!”