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War Driving With The Kids

Posted by Hemos on from the wonderful-way-to-spend-a-vacation dept.

burntfungus writes "War Driving on Vacation with your kids. A drive from Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo's Gum Alley (yes, it's bubble gum on the wall), then on to San Francisco. Hundreds of 802.11b Access points available for mapping with Netstumbler. Some in the middle of nowhere."

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  1. For those who don't know what "war driving" means by jodonn · · Score: 5, Informative

    like me a few minutes ago, here's a link to a Register article about it.

  2. Netstumbler is broke, try www.webs0r.net! by punkball · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since netstumbler's web shat the fan you should all go check out www.webs0r.net instead. A patch to wlan and then some scripts make wireless discovery easy.

  3. Re:advanced war driving. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    The article says the guy got it from AntennaSystems

  4. Re:Huh? by Rob+Parkhill · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, for those looking for a translation without actually reading the story...

    "War Driving" refers to the practice of driving around town with a laptop and an 802.11b car looking for and mapping the location of wirelass access points. A GPS is helpful to let you know where you are.

    I have no idea where the name "War Driving" came from, though. "Wirelss Access Recon" perhaps? :-)

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  5. Re:Huh? by Zocalo · · Score: 5, Informative
    I have no idea where the name "War Driving" came from, though.

    It's a corruption of "War Dialling", which is the brute force approach of finding modems to compromise by sequentially dialling all the telephone numbers in a range. Used most effectively in the film Wargames since I guess you haven't seen it.

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