Thursday, May 24, 2007

Guy is fined for using Cafe's WiFi


If you're a geek and you're thinking about moving to Michigan, don't!!! A Michigan man was recently fined $400 and ordered to perform 40 hours of community service. Damn, he must have assaulted a police officer or something, right? Actually, the dude was just using a cafe’s WiFi connection to check his e-mail and surf the web. A nosy police chief confronted the gentleman about it and eventually booked him on fraudulent computer access.

Michigan’s computer access law apparently states that using a WiFi connection without authorization is a felony. You can get 5 years and be fined $10k for using a WiFi connection that doesn’t have WEP or WPA on it.

Wow!!!

You think Michigan could spend that time, I don't know, maybe looking for real crimes?

Read the rest after the jump.

2 comments:

  1. Maybe because guys using open internet connections don't shoot back with larger automatic weapons.

    Break yo self fool!!!!!

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  2. True that!!!

    Go after the geeks...Leave the gangsters alone!!!

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