Toronto man charged with wardriving, possession of child pornography

Tim Meehan cypherpunks at salvagingelectrons.com
Sat Nov 22 11:32:57 PST 2003


http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/release.php?id=4732
	
November 21, 2003 - 01:20 pm

CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ARREST  USING STOLEN INTERNET SIGNAL

Corporate Communications
416-808-7100

On Wednesday November 19th, 2003 at approximately 5:03am, Sgt. Don Woods (7167)
of 11 Division observed the accused driving his car the wrong way on a one way
street in a residential subdivision in Toronto. The accused was investigated and
observed to be naked from the waist down. He had a laptop computer on the
passenger seat and on the screen was a young girl performing a sex act on an
older man. 


The laptop had a wireless adapter card (known as a WI-FI card) allowing the
accused to access the Internet through any insecure wireless Internet signal.
(known as War Driving) The accused was taken to 11 Division and members of the
Child Exploitation Section of the Sex Crimes Unit were called in. 


A lengthy investigation revealed that the accused also had been downloading
child pornography using KaZaa, a peer to peer file sharing program and had been
posing as a younger man in chatrooms to meet young girls. With the assistance of
the O.P.P.s Project P, a search warrant was executed at the residence of the
accused in Delhi, Ontario. 10 Computers and hundreds of compact discs containing
hundreds of thousands of images and movies of child pornography were recovered. 


Accused : Walter NOWAKOWSKI 
36 years 
Delhi, Ontario 
Charged : Possession of Child Pornography (2 Counts) 
Accessing Child Pornography 
Distribute Child Pornography 
Theft of Telecommunications 
Make Child Pornography 


The accused is in custody and will appear in courtroom #101 at Old City Hall, on
Monday November 24th, 2003, at 10:00 a.m. for a bail hearing.. 


The public is reminded that if they are operating a wireless network at their
home or business, their system needs to be secured against such actions.

Sgt. Jim Muscat for Detective Sergeant Paul Gillespie and Staff Inspector Bruce
Smollet





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