Just went WarDriving

[Beattie]

Drove around my town with my friend's new airport card in his powerbook. Found a few open networks that we connected to. Even Chalked a little. It was a fun evening.

 

[oniq]

What kind of neighborhoods? I wasn't able to find any in suburban areas but in the city I found 3 without an external antenna.

 

[Beattie]

Suburban. we found 23 in about 2 square miles. Didnt really look THAT hard though, just kind of drove around.

 

[AntaresVI]

I don't see how people are running these setups; my 802.11b network isn't even accessable at my mailbox, let alone out in the street.

 

[oniq]

Wow! I wonder if the Airport has a wider range than my D-Link that I used with my Powerbook, I think I'll take my iBook for a drive

 

[Kaervak]

Damn that's 23 more than I've found around here. I swear, I'm the only one with wireless around here.

 

[Beattie]

we got crappy connections to almost all of them, just enough to use them, some werent even that strong.

 

[Zim Hosein]

WarDriving sounds like fun Beattie and for the moment is legal: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1827

 

[Nocturnal]

I'm sure a lot of networks are being compromised and used illegally by hackers.

 

[DaiShan]

You started early the world wide war drive does not start untill tomorrow (well today rather, the 28th) I am frantically trying to get slack set up on my laptop, also trying to get my gps working with my PPC so I can mark with ministumbler.

 

[Nocturnal]

You guys are lucky to own a laptop. I can't wait to get one. People ask me why I want to wardrive. I've never done it before, duh! I'm sure once I've tried it I won't want to do it again. It's just one of those have to try once things.

 

[Eli]

I am going to do this sometime.

 

[Nocturnal]

It's perfectly LEGAL.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
It's perfectly LEGAL.

Yep. But parking your car in my driveway is not. I'm armed.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
It's perfectly LEGAL.

Yep. But parking your car in my driveway is not. I'm armed.

:Q

/mental note

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
It's perfectly LEGAL.

Yep. But parking your car in my driveway is not. I'm armed.

Who said people park their cars in people's driveways? I'm sure you can hit the signal from street parking. My friends have found open networks while driving at like 5 mph.

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
It's perfectly LEGAL.

Yep. But parking your car in my driveway is not. I'm armed.

:Q

/mental note

/mental note

must taunt from public street while wearing kevlar

 

[RossMAN]

Did you use an external antenna or just the PCMCIA WiFi card in the laptop?

 

[Maverick]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Did you use an external antenna or just the PCMCIA WiFi card in the laptop?

thats what I want to know...are you guys using pringles cans?

 

[Flashram]

Originally posted by: Shiva112

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Did you use an external antenna or just the PCMCIA WiFi card in the laptop?

thats what I want to know...are you guys using pringles cans?

I went wardriving last night and found several networks using just the minipci card (Orinoco) built into my laptop.

 

[DWW]

DISCLAIMER: Any reference below is intended for perfectly legal reasons of course to networks you are permitted free, open and unrestricted access.

Anyone know if there are wardriving tools for PPC 2k2 or 2k3?

 

[Ime]

I went wardriving where I live (in the middle of nowhere) and found 6 open access points! I was stunned!

 

[ultimatebob]

Just for the hell of it, I did a scan for access points on my e740 (One of the Toshiba PDA models with built-in WiFi) while I was taking a cab ride in NYC. I found at least 2 or 3 access points on every block, and most of them weren't secured.

It just goes to show how many people bother to read the instruction manuals on their wireless routers when they set them up.

 

[Derango]

Originally posted by: LeRocks
I don't see how people are running these setups; my 802.11b network isn't even accessable at my mailbox, let alone out in the street.

Be careful with that...the range of the card influences that a lot.

 

[alocurto]

I am by no means a hacker but I do run a wireless network. I changed the channel to 6, enabled 128 bit encryption and don't broadcast the name. How at risk am I? I don't know how deep we can get into all this on the forums but how "easy" is it to get past the encryption, find the network and get on it.