A Minnesota man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after he hacked a neighbor's Wi-Fi router and then launched a vengeful two-year campaign to frame them with child pornography and threats to government officials, including Vice President Joe Biden. (etc...)
Why you want to secure your wi-fi
Jul 14, 2011
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From a quick reading of this case, it sounds like the guy did secure his wifi, otherwise the neighbour wouldn't have needed to "hack" anything.
Still interesting that the authorities bothered to investigate at all instead of just going after the intended victim full force.
I don't consider WEP to be secure.
Read the governments position on sentencing, which should give a you clue as to why they decided to prosecute to the maximum.
Excellent. Thanks for pointing that out.
Maybe put an electronic copy on a separate wireless LAN segment that's relatively easy to break into and probably doesn't go anywhere, give it a tantalizing name so that it's the first or only thing downloaded, and then see how often it actually does get downloaded.
No no, I understand that. I'm surprised they bothered to investigate
*anything*, and instead didn't just persecute the victim (the owner of the compromised router) ignoring any evidence to the contrary.
The investigation was started by the law firm the victim of the hacking worked at. The authorities were called in after the law firm's investigation showed the hacking. Had the police been called first, I don't doubt they'd have targetted the victims of the hacker, rather than the hacker.
Jerry
Meanwhile, at the alt.internet.wireless Job Justification Hearings, Jerry Peters chose the tried and tested strategy of:
Which makes one wonder how many people have been framed in this manner and are in prison right now?
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