Stealing Wi-Fi signal brings trouble for Benjamin Smith III
July 8th, 2005 Leave a comment Visited 72 times, 1 so far today
Stealing Wi-Fi signal brings trouble for Benjamin Smith III
Police has arrested an individual named Benjamin Smith III for stealing bandwidth off someone else’s wireless Internet connection for personal use. This happens to be one of the first cases of its kind in the United States. Benjamin now faces a pretrial hearing this month following his arrest in the month of April.
He has been charged with claims of unauthorized access to a computer network, which happens to be a third-degree felony! He is reported to have admitted to use the Wi-Fi signal from the home of Richard Dinon who found Smith sitting in his SUV running his laptop. The concept of stealing bandwidth from someone else’s wi-fi’s network is not new, though most of such actions go undetected due to lack of awareness and alertness.
Field experts say that individuals and corporations using Wi-Fi connectivity should block unauthorized access to their internal networks by using firewalls and passwords. Sensitive data should be kept encrypted away from common users on the network to prevent any data theft due to outside interference.
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July 12th, 2005 at 9:36 pm
Why dosn’ anyone get it, If his access point was shared and wep not configured, it is a public access site! Im embarresd to admin I live it tampabay. Wi-Fi is celular arch. The of the cops here are dumb asses.
July 12th, 2005 at 10:09 pm
Im getting Piss Off If it’s Shared and showing the ssid it’s Public.
The freq are allicated to the public for public use, Same as CB’s, Talk abouts ect. I heard a coversation on the CB, please don’t call smoky. I have the IP address of thousands who have used my 1.5 free dedicated and open wlan that sits in front of 1 cisco rt subnetted and behind a ISA Server. when he loged on to the internet he was sent out the gateway net to the private side! dickon is an ass hole, fbi cia, ect, uses the mac addressto determine actual equip used! Lets help this guy everyone print the wireless router access logs to the police depts to stop this now!