Roving Cyber Criminals?

[Grifter]

Guilty until proven innocent.


http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp...1&nav=9TahKyMs

[Adrenaline]

agreed, sounds quite screwed up to me.

[Floydr47]

agreed, sounds quite screwed up to me.

If someone leaves the front door open you couldn't really call it breaking and entering now could you?

[Gadsden]

However in Hamilton County, in two separate financial fraud cases, the suspect either admitted or had the equipment necessary to commit crimes using someone else's wireless computer system.

Wow.. they had a wireless card!
"In other news, local women confess to having the equipment to be a prostitute, although they have not been charged yet. "

This show just how clueless law enforcement is, and how eager the media is to drum up fear for a story at the expense of facts. Now I remember why I shut myself out from many media outlets, especially local-yokal rags.

[skroo]

If someone leaves the front door open you couldn't really call it breaking and entering now could you?

No, but it doesn't mean that you have the right to walk in through that door either.

[Adrenaline]

If someone leaves the front door open you couldn't really call it breaking and entering now could you?

all im wondering is how they plan to enforce it, they cant just pull people over just for having a laptop or pda with a wifi card,
the only way I can think of for them to actually have some leeway with this initiative is if they were setting up wifi honeypots around the city and tried nailing people that way.
*shrug* it'll be interesting to see how the first incident they have goes down.

[lil_freak]

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[highwizard]

If someone leaves the front door open you couldn't really call it breaking and entering now could you?

For starters, Ever hear of Criminal Trespass?

[staticblac]

if they start profiling due to a laptop with a wifi card what happens to the people with the internal Wi-Fi card? Concealed Wi-Fi card charges?

[astcell]

My laptop (Sony U-1) and wi-fi fit in a small fanny pack, is that a concealed WMD?

[JiTRiF]

Just read my sig.

I think it's all BS, suppose you were wardriving and they pull you over because they see your hardware. You could just shut down the connection and be safe before they even get out of their car. And wouldn't setting up unprotected hotspots so they could catch you be entrapment?

[staticblac]

well considering the only people that actually initiate a connection to a sting server probally don't that the concent of the fbi, it is then illegal and not entrapment becuase they willing connected and knowingly broke the law. Now I wonder if they will try to make scanning illegal to

[JiTRiF]

i doubt scanning will be illegal, port scanning is still quite legal. There isn't too much difference between the two.

[Clp727]

Just read my sig.

I think it's all BS, suppose you were wardriving and they pull you over because they see your hardware. You could just shut down the connection and be safe before they even get out of their car. And wouldn't setting up unprotected hotspots so they could catch you be entrapment?

They still allow undercover officers to pose as prostitutes or drug dealers/purchasers, and that is acceptable in the judicial system.
It wouldn't surpise me one bit to see the law enforcement set up a wifi trap to catch war drivers. I think our legal system has some issues that need to be resolved. :(

[Chris]

They still allow undercover officers to pose as prostitutes or drug dealers/purchasers, and that is acceptable in the judicial system.
It wouldn't surpise me one bit to see the law enforcement set up a wifi trap to catch war drivers. I think our legal system has some issues that need to be resolved. :(

Slow down there champ. You are making the same incredibly short sighted and incorrect assumption that the chump who penned this piece of garbage story did.

You can "catch" WarDrivers all you want. They aren't doing anything illegal. WarDriving is not a crime (hmm..). Once a person accesses a wireless network without authorization he has ceased to be a WarDriver and has become a criminal. The two should not be confused.

Be careful how you use terminology or you will cease to "own" it. This is apparent with the word hacker that has been taken from us and given over to the sheeple who think that "hackers" are out to destroy the world with a quick game of Global Thermo Nuclear Warfare.