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  1. Just incase you want to jump on board. by zippo01 · · Score: 3, Informative · on Queensland Police to Look For Unsecured WiFi Spots

    http://www.wardriving.com/code.php

  2. Re:EVERY access point? by Hobbes897 · · Score: 1 · on FCC Wants to Track Wireless
    This is already happening. In fact, it seems to be a hobby for wifi enthusiasts to cruise around their neighborhoods mapping the access points. There are already several scripts to put the GPS data onto satellite images and a company called SkyHook is currently gathering information about wireless APs for an E-911 system.

    http://www.wardriving.com/ Wardriving news
    http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/wiglet ogoogleearth Script for mapping wireless APs
    http://www.skyhookwireless.com/news/press_rel_8.pd f Skyhook E-911 press release.
    http://www.skyhookwireless.com/scanning/upload.php Want to be a professional wardriver? Sign up here!

  3. Wardriving is _not_ a crime by goldfndr · · Score: 1 · on Possession of Cantenna Now Illegal?

    There is no generally accepted definition for wardriving that makes it illegal. Wardriving is the act of logging wireless access points. Doing more than merely logging may be illegal, but that isn't wardriving.

  4. Hmmm by GeorgeH · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Mapping a Wi-Fi Network?

    I think one or two people may have done something similar... Maybe Slashdot might be of assistance

  5. Re:Keeping track of hotspots by deadmongrel · · Score: 3, Informative · on Cringely Proposes New WiFi Plan

    Wear a watch that beeps when there is an internet connection nearby, and stop and check out email?
    Well for wardriving you could use
    1.Use a zaurus(or any other PDA with wi-fi)
    or
    2.use This device
    or
    3. us this directory to find free hot-spots

  6. Re:Well, someone has to pick the nits... by BMcWilliams · · Score: 1 · on War Driving To Be Protected In NH
    Brian McWilliams obviously thinks this is a bad law, and he has slanted his article accordingly

    At the risk of feeding a troll, I must say I don't have an opinion either way on the bill. But I did think it was newsworthy. I certainly didn't try to "slant" the story.

    Finally, I think you are confused about the origins of the expression war driving.

    Brian

  7. *Yawn* by PureFiction · · Score: 2 · on Toronto, The Naked City

    This is news? People have been
    scanning wireless
    networks
    for a long time now...

  8. Info sites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Drive-By Hacking in London

    Here are a few links to informations and the like..
    Windows: Netstumbler
    Linux and various links: Wardriving.com

  9. This thing has already been done... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Wireless LAN Encryption Standard Broken

    Too bad this is old news fellas. A group from UC-Berkeley has done an even more in-depth research project about the (in)security of wep, and can be viewed here:

    Wep (in)Security

    One of the important things to point out is that in the paper done by this group of people is that the also included active attacks, which is a pretty neat tool. I won't elaborate too much on this, but it is possible for a hacker (bad context) to act like a man-in-the-middle attack, sniffing your packets off the air, then doing whatever to them, then sending them to you (as if nothing every happened).

    The sad thing is that most people don't even know that encryption is available on some of these models.

    One other important thing to point out with wireless LANs is the new thing with war driving (similar to war dialing). What this consists mainly of is someone sitting outside in your parking lot and just surfing the net for free. There are also more complex stuff that is done out there, specifically in San Franscisco where the whole city was marked out by the http://www.dis.org guys, containing all the wireless LANs available as well as their SSID's (think of identification).

    Here are some links on wardriving:
    Mobile Wardriving
    San Fran War Driving
    General War Driving Info

    One last thing to point out is that new technology that is coming out allows you to make a mobile sniffer device just using a Compaq iPaq, a Lucent wireless LAN PC Card, and a few other items (depending how sophisticated you want to get), and all of this can be done for under 1000 US dollars.

    God bless Al Gore for creating the Internet.