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80% of WiFi Networks are still Insecure, Kismet Author Says
acz writes "The brain and guts driving the development of Kismet is Mike Kershaw alias Dragorn, who works during the day on IBM mainframes and hacks code at night. Kismet is simply the best war driving tool out there plus it's free as in GPL and can even run on your linux PDA. In a recent interview posted on HERT today, he says: 'I've become entirely jaded towards security as a whole (or rather, people's complete lack of it) and not much surprises me when it comes to open wireless networks. ... the overall percentage of unencrypted networks is still at about 80%.'"
Sure, people who leave their wireless networks insecure are stupid, or naive. Same as people who leave their front doors unlocked.
But just because someone is dumb enough not to lock their front door doesn't mean you have the right to walk in there and take what you want. So can somebody please explain to me how wardriving is any different to cruising around the 'hood looking for unlocked front doors and then walking in to take what you want? Seems pretty criminal to me...
For those who want to participate in the "utopian ideal" of free access for all, maybe there is some way of indicating that you are willing to share your connectivity. You know, like "front door is open, please come in and take some cookies". The assumption should be that you are not welcome on someone's network unless it is indicated otherwise.
None of which addresses MY point that if I'm at work, and YOU send an email from my home network, I can prove (easily) that I wasn't there.
So, address the point or shut the fuck up AC.