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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. Re:This makes always good news. by leuk_he · · Score: 4, Interesting

    starbuck.

    I was not aware of the starbuck network. google turned up this. It states you have to logon (and pay ) to use their network. I suppose the car is also good for them if you have to pay anyway.

    By the way: I was disappointed when i went on vacation to california this summer about public internet access. I found:
    -public libraries: 3 out of 4 times there was a waiting list. (reserved days ahead)
    -something at a gas station in palm springs.
    1 (1) internet cafee at the las vegas strip.

    A friend went to peru and in almost every small village they had public (not free) access.

  2. Re:Sounds fun but... by don_carnage · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've said it before -- let's combine the two sports: Geocaching and Wardriving. "There is a cache on an NT network at these coordinates. Take a file if you want, but please be sure to leave something in return.

    --
    Wooden armaments to battle your imaginary foes!
  3. I just had my first wardriving experience by Nerftoe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A couple weeks ago, I bought an Orinoco Gold access card, downloaded netstumbler, and had my homemade Pringles antenna ready to go.

    The wife and I got out last Sunday to see if I could find any access points. We live a few files from Indianapolis, so I figured we would have to go downtown to find any access points. NOT TRUE! Many of the APs we found were on personal home networks. Every time we would pass an apartment complex.. blip!.. an AP or two would show up. Where they encrypted? Heh, no. We made one loop through downtown Indy and came back to our house and we found 40 access points. 5 were encypted.

    So, we found one near a Mr. D's (grocery store). We stopped in the parking lot, I set up my Pringles antenna, and browsed the web via someone's @home connection. Really cool!

    You can imagine the looks that I received when passersby saw me scanning back and forth with a pringles antenna, wires coming out of it, and a laptop on my lap. Anyway, wardriving is fun for the whole family. It's kinda like Geocaching, but quite a bit easier. :)