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Wardriving From 1500ft Up

Posted by timothy on from the beats-an-in-flight-movie dept.

luciensims writes "Wireless networking blog e3.com.au is running a story about a few of their members flying a private aircraft 1500ft above Perth, Western Australia. They found over 90 access points. Details are here."

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  1. Helping the SYSOPS, is there a standard? by JanMark · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Speaking of security... I wonder how ethical it would be to code up a script that maps to printers
    > available on open/insecure WLAN netbios networks and print out "Your Wireless Network is insecure,
    > Please fix it!"?
    This might be helpful to the local sysop. This printout can be shown to his (her) /boss/. The boss will understand the problem at once! Where the usual "Let's invest in security" is less palpable.
    On the other hand, it could rase the question why the sysop didn't /do/ anything about it already.
    What is the /best/ way of letting a site know about a security hole?

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  2. Re:wireless from the air by garcia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    no matter the fluff, I don't believe it is dangerous. it is another reason for you to have to use inflight phones and to pay attention to the captain.

    Although it would be REALLY fucking annoying if cellphones were allowed. I already have trouble sleeping on the plane as I somehow always pick the seat RIGHT in front of the "seat kicker baby". Not only is it a "seat kicker baby" it has a mother/father that is a "seat kicker baby's parent who doesn't care when the person in front of them asks them to restrain their child". Imagine 99% of the plane talking to people on the phone. Grr.