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Thought some of you may be interested in this. Happened where I am, Toronto.
A bizarre story of a wireless Internet connection and a half naked man has resulted in the arrest of a child pornography suspect. It happened early Wednesday morning, when a cop spotted a car going the wrong way down a one-way street.
When he stopped the driver, the officer was in for a surprise. The man inside was naked from the waist down and was downloading images from a laptop of a young girl performing a sex act from the file sharing program Kazaa. He was accessing the Internet from a wireless connection, being transmitted by an unsuspecting computer owner in the neighbourhood.
The suspect was arrested and police immediately obtained a search warrant for his home. They discovered a cache of what police call “hundreds of thousands” of child porn images stored on 10 P.C.s and CDs, along with evidence that he’d been making contact with young girls in chatrooms.
Thirty-six year-old Walter Nowakowski from Delhi, Ontario, is facing a number of child porn charges and at least one that cops believe is unique - it’s the first time anyone has faced theft of telecommunications charges because of a wireless Internet signal. He’ll be in Old City Hall court Monday.
In the meantime, police are warning Internet users to lock down their wireless connections – because anyone with a computer and the proper equipment can take advantage of the signal.
When he stopped the driver, the officer was in for a surprise. The man inside was naked from the waist down and was downloading images from a laptop of a young girl performing a sex act from the file sharing program Kazaa. He was accessing the Internet from a wireless connection, being transmitted by an unsuspecting computer owner in the neighbourhood.
The suspect was arrested and police immediately obtained a search warrant for his home. They discovered a cache of what police call “hundreds of thousands” of child porn images stored on 10 P.C.s and CDs, along with evidence that he’d been making contact with young girls in chatrooms.
Thirty-six year-old Walter Nowakowski from Delhi, Ontario, is facing a number of child porn charges and at least one that cops believe is unique - it’s the first time anyone has faced theft of telecommunications charges because of a wireless Internet signal. He’ll be in Old City Hall court Monday.
In the meantime, police are warning Internet users to lock down their wireless connections – because anyone with a computer and the proper equipment can take advantage of the signal.
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