War Kayaking

ptorrone writes "As the summer approaches, we crawl out of our protective wired covered lairs to sometimes partake in outdoor activity. Last weekend, we went kayaking around Lake Union in Seattle, WA and of course, we couldn't help but bring along a lot of equipment and decided we'd hunt for open wireless spots, this friends- was "War Kayaking" we found a ton, charted it with GPS, Wifi finders and we'll show you how we did it for this week's HOW-TO Tuesday. We also shot a video in the kayak, be sure to check that out too."

Comments

Re:War "Your Favorite Activity Here"

[velo_mike]

<extreme war ...>

I already haul way too much crap doing these things, with photo gear my day pack is >25 lbs and I'm afraid to weigh the 7 day pack or think about how much the trad rack and ropes add. There's no f*** way I want to drag along more delicate, battery dependant gear. OTOH, the geek in me wonders how many Colorado 14'ers can I surf from... Thanks, you've planted the seed...

ha ha.. no kidding!

[Anonymous Coward]

Lake Union is pretty lame. It's ringed by low-rise office buildings, a couple of marinas, and some old toxic industrial stuff. Lake Washington has some nicer spots, as does the Puget Sound, but even tiny Green Lake is more "amazing" than Lake Union.

Unencrypted

[JohnGrahamCumming]

For the next hour we paddled a little over 3 miles in a variety of different areas- every few seconds or so we picked up a new Wifi spot, our Pocket PC was set to automatically use open Wifi spots so we were able to check email, instant message, log on to IRC (#joiito on freenode) and do everything you'd expect, but all from a kayak.

Yeah, and since you were using POP3 my "look-at-this -idiot-who-left-his-wifi-open" AP just recorded your username and password which since your ISP uses the same password for shell access has given me a free shell account. Mwah hah hah.

Seriously, folks, don't go around connecting to any old AP just because it's open unless the first thing you do is set up an SSH tunnel to somewhere and use it to redirect your traffic.

In another topic, I'm amazed that no one has set up fake T-Mobile or WayPort APs in cities just to grab CC numbers. It would be *so* easy.

John.

Re:Get a life!

[ptorrone]

the "we" thing, okay- i understand that feedback, but that's the voice of the site, i'll see if it makes sense to change it for the how tos. thanks for the kind words on the how-tos, folks seem to like them. right now, i have 3 ipods and 4-5 phones, as i upgrade, i keep them and use them for other things, i might be ebaying some for $. as far as time to do all this stuff, i don't really sleep that much and right now, i'm taking some time off to enjoy life. and lastly "pulling the same face" wow, well- i can't change the way i look. hope this clears stuff up.

WarBuoys

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm a skipper (captain) of my own boat, a deckhand or even a first mate on other boats where I'm hired.

I wouldn't mind the tide and navigation buoys having wifi access. That would be nice. Perhaps the greatest strength for Wifi or 802.11? in general would be over the ocean horizon because of the great line-of-sight possibilities. It will not be long until we see floating RFID Wifi WarBouys, solar-powered for Wifi-to-Satelite network access, traveling like little automated submarines around in the depths of the ocean.

I am always around Catalina island, as well as San Nicholas, San Clemente, and Santa Barbara islands; I'll claim First Buoy in the name of Petopia!

No God?

[anomaly]

On what authority do you make that negative assertion? I submit to you that it is logically inconsistent for you to make that assertion.

Disagree? Email or post a reply!

Anomaly

BTW - I agree that there are many places on the planet more interesting than Seattle. :)