A Michigan man is being prosecuted for using a cafe’s free WiFi… from his car. Sam Peterson was arrested under a Michigan law barring access to anyone else’s network without authorization, according to Michigan TV station WOOD. Since the cafe’s WiFi network was reserved for customers, and Peterson never came into the cafe, he was essentially piggybacking off of the open network without authorization.
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A news Web site has been hit with a massive “trackback spam” attack, which saw 27,000 adult Web links posted to its site in a single day.
The Newsbreak Web site, based in the Phillipines, had to close the trackback feature of its site after the attack and manually delete the links. It is not known why the company was targeted, though the deluge is unlikely to have been anything other than deliberate.
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