"We're not sure yet how to combat that," said Kevin R. West, a federal agent who oversees the computer crimes unit in North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation. "Free wireless spots are everywhere, and it makes it easy for people . . . to sit there and do their nefarious acts. The fear is that if

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When detectives arrived at the apartment, they found an elderly woman who lived alone. It did not take long to realize that the problem was her wireless router which, obviously, one of her unscrupulous neighbors had tapped into in order to conduct his online pedophilia. Anybody in any apartment in the elderly woman’s 10 story building could have accessed the internet through the woman’s router. The detectives had to go back to the drawing board on this crime.

The authorities were aware that one of the neighbors probably were uploading photographs of nude children via the woman’s router, and doing so made the perpetrator virtually untraceable.

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"We're not sure yet how to combat that," said Kevin R. West, a federal agent who oversees the computer crimes unit in North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation. "Free wireless spots are everywhere, and it makes it easy for people . . . to sit there and do their nefarious acts. The fear is that if

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When detectives arrived at the apartment, they found an elderly woman who lived alone. It did not take long to realize that the problem was her wireless router which, obviously, one of her unscrupulous neighbors had tapped into in order to conduct his online pedophilia. Anybody in any apartment in the elderly woman’s 10 story building could have accessed the internet through the woman’s router. The detectives had to go back to the drawing board on this crime.

The authorities were aware that one of the neighbors probably were uploading photographs of nude children via the woman’s router, and doing so made the perpetrator virtually untraceable.

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"We're not sure yet how to combat that," said Kevin R. West, a federal agent who oversees the computer crimes unit in North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation. "Free wireless spots are everywhere, and it makes it easy for people . . . to sit there and do their nefarious acts. The fear is that if

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The authorities were aware that one of the neighbors probably were uploading photographs of nude children via the woman’s router, and doing so made the perpetrator virtually untraceable.

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"We're not sure yet how to combat that," said Kevin R. West, a federal agent who oversees the computer crimes unit in North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation. "Free wireless spots are everywhere, and it makes it easy for people . . . to sit there and do their nefarious acts. The fear is that if

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"We're not sure yet how to combat that," said Kevin R. West, a federal agent who oversees the computer crimes unit in North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation. "Free wireless spots are everywhere, and it makes it easy for people . . . to sit there and do their nefarious acts. The fear is that if

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erious crimes -- from identity theft to the sexual solicitation of children.

"We're not sure yet how to combat that," said Kevin R. West, a federal agent who oversees the computer crimes unit in North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation. "Free wireless spots are everywhere, and it makes it easy for people . . . to sit there and do their nefarious acts. The fear is that if we talk about it, people will learn about it and say, 'I can go to a parking lot, and no one will catch me.' But we need to talk about it so that we can figure out how to solve it."

Most newer computers come equipped with a wireless card, and many users of even older models are buying wireless cards for their machines. Anyone with this device can access the Internet from any of the public WiFi "hotspots," as they're called. People with wireless cards who live in close proximity to others who have unsecured wireless routers can also access the internet through their neighbors’ networks. This renders offenders of internet crimes almost untraceable, and causes major headaches for law abiding citizens.

"It's frustrating for officers," said Todd Shipley, director of training services at the National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics. "If a suspect is going from coffee shop to coffee shop and using free signals to commit crimes, the police probably aren't going to catch him. That's the reality." Authorities say that businesses and cities that offer free connections need some way to track the users, such as filtering measures that could scan to see who is accessing the network.

West tells about a recent case, where a truck driver used free wireless signals at motels across the country to post and view pornographic images of children at a web site. By pure luck, the man was caught, West says. When the suspect got online from his home computer, authorities were able to trace his computer's Internet Protocol address, or the