How Not To Steal Wi-Fi April 18, 2007

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War-driving, the nefarious art of stealing other’s people’s Wi-Fi bandwidth by driving around with a laptop, is now somewhat of an urban sport. However, more people in the UK are getting nabbed by the police for stealing Wi-Fi from the comfort of their cars. But how?

We know police have trouble enough catching large gangs of marauding drunk teenagers in town centres at any given weekend, so how the hell do they manage to catch one person, in a car, at night with a laptop? It seems, it’s less to do with great deductive reasoning and hi-tech and more down to really stupid people.

Here’s how not to do it, like the guy caught in Redditch a few days ago.

(a) If you’re planning to steal Wi-Fi from some home at night, don’t park in front of their house
(b) Don’t cover your windows with cardboard because that doesn’t look at all suspicious to passersby or nosey neighbours.
(c) Poorly cut cardboard does not stop the flashing blue light from your notebook’s display, just makes it look like there’s a disco in your car.-Martin Lynch

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