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The Wireless Wardriving Rig

An anonymous reader writes "If James Bond was into wireless hacking, this would be his rig."

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  1. Proper use of subjunctive! by mutterer · · Score: 2, Informative

    It should read: "If James Bond were into wardriving..."

    1. Re:Proper use of subjunctive! by netsharc · · Score: 3, Informative

      Looks like the Anti-Grammar-Nazies are pissed off at the language skills of the Grammar-Nazies and are modding the "were"-people off-topic.

      To understand where the "were" come from, you have to learn the language of the real Nazis, i.e. German, from which English is "forked".. in German the subjunctive is "wre" and it's pronounced so close to "were". English simplifies the language, so it's converted the word to "were". In reality the two "were"'s in English aren't exactly the same word. Not that this would have people. :)

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  2. no not the drill! by KMAPSRULE · · Score: 4, Informative

    From the article:

    Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case.

    oh he's breakin' heart throwng away an 18 volt cordless drill.Man you'd think he'd at least keep the drill for parts.

    here's text as its already /.ed

    Materials:case_closed
    * 1 Toshiba libretto. (or similar sized laptop)
    * 1 GPS receiver.
    * 1 collinear antenna. (www.guerrilla.net)
    * 1 dewalt drill case.
    * 1 sheet 1" plastizote.
    * dallop of contact cement
    * little bit of velcro.
    * a bunch of speedy rivets.
    * 1 1104 box w/ receptacle cover.
    * 1 duplex receptacle.
    * nothing better todo on a weekend

    case open Assembly:

    Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case. Using a sharp knife cut away all the platic baffles leaving only the one compartment on the left side of the case ( its the perfect size for the laptops power supply).

    Now take your plastizote (a very dense closed cell foam) and lay it on a large flat surface, like a table ;). Open the case and make a depression into the material. Quickly cut away the impression that you made and repeat. You will need two inserts for both the top and bottom of the case.

    Glue the first two inserts and install one in each halve of the case. You can then layout and mark your hardware on the other two peices. Using your trusty, very sharp olfa blade cut out the patterns you made and carefully glue and secure in their respective halves.

    To build the antenna follow the instructions on http://www.guerrilla.net. This design can easilly be made sectional by solering pcboard stand-offs onto each of the peices so that they can be threaded together. You can then build your radome in two pieces using a 1/2" TA fitting -> 1/2" threaded coupling scenario. Securely fasten the bottom half (glue) while allowing the upper half to float (make sure it is supported within the tube)

    The receptacle was added so that while driving i can plug the case into my inverter and utilize the extra outlets for the antennas amplifier.

    Technical:

    The laptop is an overclocked (75->100MHz) toshiba libretto 50CT with 32M ram and a 10G HD. It is running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable. Kisemt, and GPSDrive are used for wireless activities. The GPS is a Garmin GPSIII plus.

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  3. Fnord by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Materials:

    * 1 Toshiba libretto. (or similar sized laptop)
    * 1 GPS receiver.
    * 1 collinear antenna. (www.guerrilla.net)
    * 1 dewalt drill case.
    * 1 sheet 1" plastizote.
    * dallop of contact cement
    * little bit of velcro.
    * a bunch of speedy rivets.
    * 1 1104 box w/ receptacle cover.
    * 1 duplex receptacle.
    * nothing better todo on a weekend

    Assembly:

    Take a drive over to home depot and buy yourself a nice 18v cordless drill (~$350). Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case. Using a sharp knife cut away all the platic baffles leaving only the one compartment on the left side of the case ( its the perfect size for the laptops power supply).

    Now take your plastizote (a very dense closed cell foam) and lay it on a large flat surface, like a table ;). Open the case and make a depression into the material. Quickly cut away the impression that you made and repeat. You will need two inserts for both the top and bottom of the case.

    Glue the first two inserts and install one in each halve of the case. You can then layout and mark your hardware on the other two peices. Using your trusty, very sharp olfa blade cut out the patterns you made and carefully glue and secure in their respective halves.

    To build the antenna follow the instructions on http://www.guerrilla.net. This design can easilly be made sectional by solering pcboard stand-offs onto each of the peices so that they can be threaded together. You can then build your radome in two pieces using a 1/2" TA fitting -> 1/2" threaded coupling scenario. Securely fasten the bottom half (glue) while allowing the upper half to float (make sure it is supported within the tube)

    The receptacle was added so that while driving i can plug the case into my inverter and utilize the extra outlets for the antennas amplifier.

    Technical:

    The laptop is an overclocked (75->100MHz) toshiba libretto 50CT with 32M ram and a 10G HD. It is running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable. Kisemt, and GPSDrive are used for wireless activities. The GPS is a Garmin GPSIII plus.

  4. (partial) mirror by coolfrood · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here: Mirror

  5. Case. by LothDaddy · · Score: 3, Informative

    The funny thing is, Home Depot sells very nice aluminium cases and other toolbox-type boxes that would suit this purpose much better than:

    "Bring it home and throw away the drill, charger, instructions, etc. You should be left with a nice hard plastic case."

  6. Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    In case the site (or routes to the site) get slashdotted. Here is a mirror.

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  7. Mirror by markclong · · Score: 4, Informative

    A complete mirror here. Includes the images linked off the page at the bottom. Have at it.

  8. ease up on my webserver by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    hi im the admin for penix.org. and the site is hosted on my dsl at home so go easy on me...

    I put up a mirror here

    please use that, if you ease up the dsl I can upload the whole site to that fast server.

    Thanks

  9. Re:Wireless and Driving? Nah... by golgotha007 · · Score: 3, Informative

    wardriving might sound stupid of you're somewhat new to the geek scene, but wardriving is obviously derived from the term 'wardialing' which was a term coined in the early eighties.

    wardialing meant dialing random or sequenced numbers on your modem looking for computer responses, in which you would then 'investigate' further.

    ever see Wargames?

  10. Re:Wireless and Driving? Nah... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's WAR driving, for Wireless Access Reconaissance.
    Unfortunate choice.

  11. Re:What a dumbass by sharkey · · Score: 2, Informative
    For what the dope spent on a wasted drill, he could've got a nice Zero Halliburton aluminum case

    Or he could have saved $300, and bought a case that could be USED by Bond.

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