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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. Defcon by Null_Packet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Rumore has it the winning team for the wardriving contest at Defcon 10 used a Las Vegas chopper tour to scan for Access points.

    check here:
    http://www.securitytribe.com/wardrive.html

    and results from the contest here:
    http://www.dis.org/wl/score.txt

  2. Automated warflying? by mikewas · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A model plane, processor, wireless card, directional antenna and GPS. Send the drone off to scout for access ponts -- either email the data back using the access points found or download the data after the drone returns.

    This'd be great on vacations. If it's fast enough, send it ahead of you on your intended route, and leapfrog from one access point to the next. If it's too slow, send it out on reccy mission when you stop for the night. By the time you're checked in & done with dinner you'll know where to go to get on the net.

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