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.