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WiFi porn hacker charged with "theft of communication"

So you catch a man driving with his pants around his ankles who's paying more attention to the child porn video running on his laptop than the road ahead. What do you charge him with?

That's the dilemma Toronto traffic police found themselves in when they arrested a man driving the wrong way down a residential one-way street.

After pulling the man over, Sgt. Don Woods discovered the man was naked from the waist down as he downloaded images on a laptop computer, of a young girl involved in a sex act with an adult.

Following his arrest, Police searched Nowakowski's home when they recovered 10 computers along with thousands of CDs and floppy disks suspected to contain child porn images.

Nowakowski faces numerous charges, including possession of child pornography and theft of communications the London Free Press reports.

What, no driving offences? But of course, Canadian legalists will focus on the "theft of communications" count. That could set a useful precedent - or an uncomfortable one.