<OT> War driveing for dollars....

[Jerry McBride]

Not that I'm a hacker, black hat type, but just a curious guy...

I took my laptop to work this morning, running kismet. It scanned my path all 
the way from home to workplace... some 20 odd miles. Along the way kismet 
detected 117 wireless installations. Imagine that... just a leasurely drive 
to work and I pass through 117 fields of opportunity.

The really shocking thing was that less than 20% used encryption and fewer 
than 10% used anything more than the default setup included with the wireless 
device. Wow! 

Ten of the 117 detections were were using essid's that could be easily be 
identified with the names or operations of a business and were legitimate 
commercial operations. Which I contacted this afternoon, with five of them 
making arrangements for me to survey their wireless setups. 

The other five simply didn't believe me when I explained how I came to contact 
them... It was like trying to explain how airplanes fly to someone that never 
saw one.... Amazing.

Wow, it's a lot like taking candy from a baby....

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