Back on the topic of why the wifi should be kept secure.
http://www.securityweek.com/man-pleads-guilty-hacking-neighbors-wirel...
Regards, Dave Hodgins
Thanks for that link, interesting.
But by Usenet standards this man is not a criminal. If anything it
shows he has a sense of humor. I can't log onto the article that
outlines why this man had a beef with his neighbor, but it looks like
a rather cruel and elaborate practical joke. I would imagine he would
be given a light sentence, but you never know. For instance some boys
in LA who were shooting random people from their car with paintballs
were given rather stiff sentences about a decade ago, and I thought
that was a bit excessive for what looked like "good clean fun" (well
not so clean--the paintballs as I recall were red dye, but that stuff
washes off I would assume).
RL
According to the US Department of Justice, in his plea agreement,
Ardolf, 45 years-old, was indicted on June 23, 2010, admitted that in
February of 2009, he hacked into his neighbor’s wireless Internet
connection and created multiple Yahoo.com email accounts in his
neighbor’s name. Then, on May 6, 2009, he used one of those accounts
to email the office of the Vice President of the United States. In
that email, Ardols wrote:
This is a terrorist threat! Take this seriously. I hate the way you
people are spending money you don’t have.... I’m assigning myself to
be judge jury and executioner. Since you folks have spent what you
don’t have it’s time to pay the ultimate price. Time for new officials
after you all are put to death by us....
The email, the Department of Justice says, was also sent to the
Governor and a U.S. Senator from Minnesota, went on to threaten to
kill the officials one at a time, with the first being dead by June 1.
Ardolf signed the email with the name of the neighbor and his wife. He
admitted he sent the email using the neighbor’s wireless router with
the intent that the email would be traced back to the neighbor.
In addition to sending the threatening email described above, Ardolf
admitted that in February of 2009, he posed as his neighbor and used
the email accounts he had created to send emails of a sexual nature to
three of the neighbor’s co-workers. Again, the defendant sent the
emails through the neighbor’s wireless Internet connection, intending
for them to be traced back to the neighbor. In one of the emails,
Ardolf attached an image containing child pornography. Ardolf also
admitted to creating a MySpace page using his neighbor’s name, on
which he posted the same pornographic image
