Police blotter: Google searches nab wireless hacker
Police blotter: Google searches nab wireless hacker
In this week’s installment, a wireless provider’s disgruntled ex-employee finds his Google searches used against him.
Google Search Convicts Hacker
An anonymous reader writes “Google search terms have helped convict a wireless hacker. The queries the hacker performed were introduced into evidence at court, where Matthew Schuster was charged with disrupting his former employer’s wireless network and imitating other users’ MAC addresses to obtain access. From the article: ‘Court documents are ambiguous and don’t reveal how the FBI discovered …
Google Searches Being Used In Court
News.com, via Search Engine Land, reports that computer expert Matthew Schuster was sentenced to 15 months in prison for hacking his ex-company, Alpha Computer Services… and he was found guilty partly due to Google searches like “make device interfere wireless network” that were used against him. News.com’s Declan McCullagh writes: Court documents are ambiguous and don’t reveal how the FBI …