# Illinois Man Fined For Piggybacking On Wi-Fi Service
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/illinois-man-fined-for-piggybacking-on-wi-fi-service/181225
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**Created:** [March 25, 2006, 10:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/illinois-man-fined-for-piggybacking-on-wi-fi-service/181225 "2006-03-25T10:04:37Z")
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### Author:  [@slowcamaro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slowcamaro)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2006, 10:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/illinois-man-fined-for-piggybacking-on-wi-fi-service/181225/1 "2006-03-25T10:04:37Z")
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060325/tc\_cmp/183702832](http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060325/tc_cmp/183702832)
> In Illinois, riding piggyback on someone else’s Wi-Fi could cost you some money.
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> David M. Kauchak, 32, pleaded guilty this week in Winnebago County to remotely accessing someone else’s computer system without permission, the Rockford Register Star newspaper reported. A Winnebago County judge fined Kauchak $250 and sentenced him to one year of court supervision.
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> Kauchak has the dubious distinction of being the first person to face the charge in Winnebago County, and prosecutors say they’re taking the crime seriously.
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> “We just want to get the word out that it is a crime. We are prosecuting it, and people need to take precautions,” Assistant State’s Attorney Tom Wartowski told the newspaper.
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> A police officer arrested Kauchak in January after spotting him sitting in a parked car with a computer. A chat with the suspect led to the arrest, Wartowski said.
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### Author:  [@dgramc](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dgramc)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2006, 11:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/illinois-man-fined-for-piggybacking-on-wi-fi-service/181225/2 "2006-03-25T11:05:53Z")
thats ridiculous, you can put a password on your wireless if you dont want people on it
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### Author:  [@SloWhite\_Z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SloWhite_Z)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/illinois-man-fined-for-piggybacking-on-wi-fi-service/181225/3 "2006-03-25T12:34:32Z")
anything for the jackoffs sitting in the court rooms to make money
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### Author:  [@T70\_Tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/T70_Tsi)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2006, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/illinois-man-fined-for-piggybacking-on-wi-fi-service/181225/4 "2006-03-25T12:57:13Z")
i remember that arrest, he wasn’t sitting on someones wireless he had hacked the wep key and was there more than one day…apparently the owner of the house noticed a mysterious car parking outside her house for a couple weeks
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### Author:  [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2006, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/illinois-man-fined-for-piggybacking-on-wi-fi-service/181225/5 "2006-03-25T14:08:27Z")
> [@T70\_Tsi](#):
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> i remember that arrest, he wasn’t sitting on someones wireless he had hacked the wep key and was there more than one day…apparently the owner of the house noticed a mysterious car parking outside her house for a couple weeks
yeah. Im gonna hack into someones interweb and steal all their megahurtz so I can sit in my car in front of their house and have free internet.
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### Author:  [@jinxxycat](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jinxxycat)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/illinois-man-fined-for-piggybacking-on-wi-fi-service/181225/6 "2006-03-25T16:41:46Z")
> [@Darkstar](#):
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> yeah. Im gonna hack into someones interweb and steal all their megahurtz so I can sit in my car in front of their house and have free internet.
:ugh: LOL people never cease to amaze me. Dude deserved what he got if that is the case 🙂
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### Author:  [@cleanquick306](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cleanquick306)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/illinois-man-fined-for-piggybacking-on-wi-fi-service/181225/7 "2006-03-25T16:58:07Z")
some peoples kids…