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Warflying 2013 Access Points in Los Angeles

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-just-crazy dept.

Kallahar writes "We went warflying over Los Angeles and Orange counties yesterday. Flying in a small plane at 1400 feet we detected 2013 802.11b APs in 75 minutes, 71% had no WEP encryption. A map and some pretty pictures are up at my writeup."

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  1. Fun by JSmooth · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This certainly sounds like it was alot of fun and I would love to have been with ya. But, how is this news worthy? It's kinda like the same story being rehashed but using a celebrity to add a new angle to it. In this case the celebrity was the novelity of the airplane but we all know there are unsecure APs out there and that they are more popular.

    I suppose what could have made it interesting is if you had managed some major hack while flying. That would be unbeliveably cool! ;)

  2. drooling by Brigadier · · Score: 0, Redundant



    Did anyone else in the LA area start drooling. I'm sure if I put an antenna out on my terrace, i'm sorry 3'x5' deck I can probable get some free bandwidth. I just wish he included a signal map that way I know which way to point the damn thing.