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Citizens of Chiswick Saved from Evil Wi-Fi Thief

Filed in archive Wi-Fi by jeff goldman on August 22, 2007

Citizens of Chiswick Saved from Evil Wi-Fi Thief

Thank God London's streets are safe again!


According to the wonderfully named Richmond and Twickenham Times, a 39-year-old man was arrested yesterday in Prebend Gardens, Chiswick for using an open Wi-Fi connection "as he sat on a wall outside a house and used his laptop."


The London Times' Will Pavia writes, "When police examined his laptop, they discovered that he had logged on several times before. He was found guilty of dishonestly obtaining an electronic communication service and his computer and wireless card were confiscated, he was fined £500 and given a 12-month conditional discharge."


Or, as The Register's Chris Williams puts it, "After admitting using the broadband connection, he was taken to the nearest cop shop and bailed until October pending further investigation by the Met's computer crime unit (slow time of the year, eh, ladslinks?)."


More here from Reuters ... and more here from BBC News.








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