Thursday, September 22, 2005

Networking Pipeline | Florida Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal

Networking Pipeline | Florida Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal: "ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Police have arrested a man for using someone else's wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice.

Benjamin Smith III, 41, faces a pretrial hearing this month following his April arrest on charges of unauthorized access to a computer network, a third-degree felony.

Police say Smith admitted using the Wi-Fi signal from the home of Richard Dinon, who had noticed Smith sitting in an SUV outside Dinon's house using a laptop computer."

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