$400, 40 hrs. of community service, and 6 mo. probation
Who should be point fingers at first – the barbershop owner, the police officer, or the judge? A volunteer firefighter receives a somewhat irritating / harsh reminder that we’re living in paranoid times.
A Michigan cop, who’d obviously been hit over the head with a billy club one time too many, levied criminal charges against a man who used an open, public Wi-Fi network outside the cafe that was running it.
The dastardly computer criminal, Sam Peterson II, of Cedar Springs, Mich., chose to pay a $400 fine, do 40 hours of community service, and stay on probation six months.
Peterson has no criminal record. He’s a 39-year-old toolmaker, volunteer firefighter, and secretary of a bagpipe band.
Personally, I’ve gotten to the point that when open networks exist, that means that a) owners are too uneducated to know the perils of forgetting to add security, or b) network owners want to share.
