<OT> War driveing for dollars....

[Jerry McBride]

On Monday 22 August 2005 11:48 pm, keith morse wrote:
> Jerry McBride wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Aye. this matches the informal surveys I've done also.  About two years ago
> a friend and I were driving from Hillsboro to Portland, roughly about 6-8
> miles.  He was using netstumber and we had placed a little 5db antenna with
> a magnetic base on the top of my cat to hookup to the Orinoco Gold card.
> Found ~ 146 if memory serves and about 30 had WEP enabled.
>
> I do know some people who depend on this largess of the public to get
> internet access.
>
> By the way, your posting seems to be somewhat in the future.

Yup. Sorry. My server needs a little attention too.... :')

My war driving hardware was my trusty Compaq Presario 700 and a Senao 2511, no 
external antennae.... Imagine what I could have found if I had a decent 
setup?

As for people using wifi hotspots for their internet fix.... yep... I let my 
neighbors leech...


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