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Wardriving
WARDRIVING
News & Definitions:
[emphasis added]
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"... net-stumbling,
also known as war-driving, involves moving around a city using a
Wi-Fi ready PC searching for networks that are otherwise invisible Dozens
of Web sites contain detailed maps showing the locations of these networks
and whether or not they're open for anyone to use."
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"War driving
involves roaming around a neighborhood looking for the increasingly numerous
“hot spots” where high-speed Internet access is beamed to a small area
by a low-power radio signal, thanks to a scheme called Wireless Fidelity.
Imagine your computer as a walkie-talkie, but instead of talking, you’re
getting high-speed Internet access. Wi-Fi, as it’s generally called (propellerheads
call it 802.11b), has unexpectedly emerged as the wireless world’s Maltese
Falcon, something truly lustworthy and, once possessed, impossible to let
go of."
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20020610
"Wild
About Wi-Fi: Rising from the grass roots, high-speed
wireless Internet connections are springing up everywhere. Tune in, turn
on, get e-mail. Sometimes for free." -By Steven
Levy and Brad Stone -Newsweek
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"There are
so many Wi-Fi networks in San Francisco these days that I was able to drive
through most of the city without ever going out of range (the whole time
with a souped-up Pringles can attached to my laptop; more on that later).
The practice is called war driving — after the old hacker game of war dialing,
which is what Matthew Broderick was doing in War Games but with far fewer
unintended consequences."
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20020609
"The
Pringles Solution: Free networks are in the
air, everywhere. You can find them with a laptop and a can of chips"
-By Chris Taylor
-TIME.com
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"... a Compaq
iPaq, armed with Mini Stumbler, wireless network-sensing software tailored
to handheld devices. On the roof of the car sits an unobtrusive omnidirectional
antenna – we could be in any car, in any major city. We plug the antenna
into the portable PC and within a matter seconds the screen springs to
life having detected five wireless networks. None carry the small padlock
denoting encrypted data."
.
"We are
Wardriving
in Sydney, sniffing out the telltale signals of 802.11 wireless LANs."
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"Techie folklore
says that "war drivers" -- wireless hackers who cruise the streets
in cars tricked out with giant antennae and military-strength amplifiers
-- can surf any local Wi-Fi network at will. Maybe they can, but I can't."
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20020305
"Waiting
for Wi-Fi: Outside of airports and Starbucks,
the wireless Net is still hanging fire. You can build your own node, but
who'll hook you up with the rest of the world?" (1, 2,
3)
-By Paul Boutin -Salon
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The Pringles can solution
explained, with pictures, and a Parts list:
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"War Driving"
"Many here
believe that hackers are already cruising around metropolitan areas in
cars and on bicycles, with their laptops listening for the beacons of wireless
networks. Using such a network doesn't even require special software or
hardware, an ordinary $150.00 consumer wireless card will latch on to the
beacons and put you on the net."
"Grand computer
capers will be pulled off, not from bedrooms and college dorms, but from
windowless vans in company parking lots, and from park benches and empty
stairwells. "It's fun, it's the new thing," says Wysopal. "It's kind of
like war dialing: you never know what you're going to get.""
"War dialing
is the timeworn technique in which a hacker programs his or her system
to call hundreds of phone numbers in search of poorly protected computer
dial-ups. The name comes from the movie WarGames, which features Matthew
Broderick performing the technique."
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