wifi ;p

[Raptor]

That was also the first documented case of someone being prosecuted for it as a crime. A few years back, I did some consulting for a company basically to show them how to hack WiFi and they pretty much did a public demo of the whole thing for the WCCO evening news with me in the background in disbelief they could be that stupid. I had told them after 9/11 hacking was upgraded to a terroristic offense and they had to limit themselves to showing the vulnerability without actually accessing anyones network. They ignored that so I clammed up and only did what they paid me for, educating them and finding the networks. Of course even with that very public display of stupidity, there were no known attempts to prosecute. You can still find copies of the news segment by searching the net for "wcco wireless report".

Considering the incredible volumes of people involved in war driving, and accessing WiFi on a small scale or large, I really doubt anyone is in a lot of danger of being prosecuted, they have to be physically cought first. Any time I have been um "researching" along those lines, I use spoofed MAC addresses, anonymous proxy servers and invalid local host names. If you are not physically caught in a case like that, it would be pretty much impossible to prove.