Warspammer guilty under new federal law

Greetings,

For all of us wireless users, another really good reason why we should disable the Wireless SSID Broadcast and harden our system:

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Warspammer guilty under new federal law

By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Sep 29 2004 10:13AM

A Los Angeles man who used other people's wi-fi networks to send thousands of unsolicited adult-themed e-mails from his car...

Tombros drove around the Los Angeles beachfront suburb of Venice with a laptop and a wi-fi antenna sniffing out unsecured residential access points, which he then used to send thousands of untraceable spam messages…

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/9606

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If you have a wireless and you haven’t consider wireless security, go to keezel’s thread here:

For some interesting reading about wardriving go to Tiger Shark’s thread here:

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cheers