Warwanking?

“Wardriving” is the term geeks use to describe driving around with a laptop looking for insecure wireless networks to hack. So what do you call driving around with a laptop and no pants, hacking wireless networks to download kiddie porn? Bad fiction? A whole slew of articles vouch for the fact that it really happened in Toronto. The ironic part is that the schmuck got caught for driving the wrong way on a one-way street. Guess he got a little distracted. A good GPS navigation program on that laptop might have prevented that. And, as somebody mentioned, this points out a serious danger of insecure networks: the network owner might be held responsible for its use. This was a residential connection that got hacked; if Walter hadn’t been caught .. um … redhanded … out in the street, investigators might have wanted to talk to the homeowners about what kind of sites they had been visiting.

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