<OT> War driveing for dollars....

[Rick Sivernell]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:54:29 -0400
Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> 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....
> 

Jerry

Way too cool, hope you can parlay it into some $$$$$$.

cheers
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Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas  75287
972 306-2296
res005ru at verizon.net
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