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After dismissing 4th Amendment for FBI, court slams Google for tapping open WiFi

Posted July 1, 2011 - 12:05 pm

Court rules Google broke wiretap laws by tracking open WLANs, while sweeping away Constitutional limits on almost every form of warrantless search and seizure.
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Militants send terror messages in India by 'wardriving'

Posted October 6, 2008 - 2:59 pm

Citizens need to be vigilant and patch poorly secured wireless networks, the Indian police said Monday after announcing the arrest of technology-savvy members of a militant group that exploited insecure wireless networks to send messages.
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Covert operation floats network-sniffing balloon

Posted August 10, 2008 - 6:56 pm

Rick Hill won't say where he launched his "wardriving" balloon on Friday, but he will tell you that it got a pretty good look at about 370 wireless networks, while scanning up and down the Las Vegas Strip.
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Forty-one million stolen credit cards is just the beginning

Posted August 7, 2008 - 11:55 am

Federal prosecutors have charged 11 people with stealing 41 million credit cards, obtained by wardriving. The criminals drove around and scanned wireless networks for vulnerabilities, then installed sniffers that stole credit card information. Was this kind of attack inevitable? I believe it was. And we have more coming.
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