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Benjamin Smith III of St. Petersburg, Florida has been arrested for stealing Richard Dinon’s wireless signal. Dinon saw Smith sitting in his SUV outside his house with his laptop open. The arrest is a new criminal case involving a fairly common practice called wardriving. Wardriving is common in areas where there is a large concentration of wireless signals. It’s not clear what Smith was doing on Dinon’s network. Checking his email? Was there any criminal activity involved? There are not enough details at the moment. This arrest is one of the first criminal cases in the United States involving stealing wireless signals.