[Wylug-discuss] uk wireless hijacker found guilty (fwd)

[Jim Jackson]

Seen on another list................

http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39150672,00.htm

Published: Friday 22 July 2005

A UK man has been fined £500 and sentenced to 12 months' conditional discharge 
for hijacking a wireless broadband connection.

On Wednesday, a jury at Islewoth court in London found Gregory Straszkiewicz, 
24, guilty of dishonestly obtaining an electronic communications service and 
possessing equipment for fraudulent use of a communications service.

Straszkiewicz was prosecuted under sections 125 and 126 of the Communications 
Act 2003.


The case is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK.