Jason Hart, An ethical Hacker traveled the main routes of six UK cities using freely-available “wardriving” software. The aim of the operating was to determine the number of networks that were either open or easily accessible.

The results showed nearly 40,000 networks as high risk, allowing access to the personal data of thousands of individuals to hackers and identity thieves.

Also as part of the survey the team were able to sniff passwords to email and other accounts at a rate of 350 per hour  from public wireless access points such as those in pub’s, airports and cafes.

Numerous reports in the media have been published about the same problem here in Ireland however people don’t see too bothered.

“We assure you that we can crack a cybercrime immediately after it is committed, so people would do better to abstain,” said a Qatar official. He added that the law provided for three years’ prison term for the offenders in such cases.

“We are citing the example of the secondary school student to tell one and all that no one who commits a cybercrime in the country can go unpunished,” he said.