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Kismet on Mac OS X
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"
One OS X application worth mentionning is Kismac. It seems to have similar features and has a cocoa interface. It would be interesting to compare the feature of both applications.
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
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
I suppose it could be useful for an administrator trying to sniff out network vulnerabilities. I know of one large company that's become very paranoid about wireless access points after discovering a few unauthorized installations on the company LAN. There wasn't any plot behind it, just a few employees experimenting, but there were holes that could've been exploited nonetheless.
Other than that, I can think of better uses for my time than trying to spy on my neighbor's network traffic.
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.
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.
How ya like dat?
It's about following the links in the article to find out.
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