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Kismet on Mac OS X

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-you-war-where-i-drive dept.

KrON writes "Kismet, undoubtedly one of the finest wardriving tools around, now has the ability to capture under Mac OS X using the Viha wireless drivers. Not only do we get to play with Kismet's awesome CLI now, but we can also use it in conjunction with GPSDrive"

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  1. Re:Kismac? by squarefish · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Kismac is a wonderful tool. I've been using it for about 6 months off and on. I wish the documention did a better job of covering the details of how to use the data it gives you. It was a lot of cool features and will even crack the stream for you.

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  2. Just Curious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Why would anyone want to wardrive? It seems like it would be a boring waste of time to me. Maybe someone who war drives can answer this?

    1. Re:Just Curious by ivan256 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I can think of many uses for internet access while driving, even if only for a few seconds at a time.. You could have real time traffic updates superimposed on real time updated maps. You could correlate available local radio stations to your current position based on GPS. You could record logs of your trips without ever needing to go home and offload the data. You could pull updates that require lots of computing power from a remote machine so you don't need a power/fan hungry PC in your car. You could check your e-mail and stocks on trips (while you're parked) without a slow-ass celluar bottleneck.

      To do any of that stuff you need some kind of network detection software.

      If I were to wardrive, it wouldn't be for the thrill of detecting somebodies network, to cause somebody harm, or to map wireless access points and mark them with chalk; it would be to make oppotunistic use of momentary network access to use self-made services I listed above.

      GUI wardriving software is stupid in my opinion. The software needs to be transparent. The user shouldn't be interfacing with the software at all. Give me a CLI for my scripts and go away.

    2. Re:Just Curious by macdaddy357 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Why wardrive? 1.To get free internet access. 2. To send out spam using someone else's account and SMTP server. 3. Just to see if you can.

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  3. h2k2 forum by squarefish · · Score: 4, Interesting

    the creator of kismet, dragorn, was one of the hosts of a great presentation at h2k2 last year called 'Fun With 802.11b'

    you can get an mp3 of it here

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  4. Re:Kismac? by jlgolson · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And when you find those networks, did you ask yourself why you are paying $45 for a cable modem? I did, but I still use my own connection of course.
    -jg

  5. Re:Kismac? by KrON · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What are you talking about? Babbling about needing the command line? Where are you getting that?

    It has a great CLI is what I said, and it integrates with other applications such as GPSDrive, which KisMAC does not.

    I proposed GPSd support to the developers of KisMAC, and none of them seemed interested..

    KisMAC is cool and all, but it's mapping features don't hold a candle to GPSDrive.. And it's wireless side of things offers more "active attack" sort of things, but isn't nearly as informative or powerful as Kismets