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Wardriving

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Aquaman

Lifer
THe reason I ask is because I was using my laptop with wifi downtown & I wasgetting a lot of unprotected networks. It amazes me how so many business can have unprotected wireles networks.

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
he he he 😱

Lucky I am not that savey & not that mean that I would do something with them.

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
Within a 5 minute drive from my house there are 22 unprotected networks and 3 with wep or wpa enabled.
 
Originally posted by: Aquaman
you would think the guys who install these things would do something about that.

Cheers,
Aquaman
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What "guys"? Just about anyone who uses AOL has the technical ability to set one up, and they often do.
 
Originally posted by: Aquaman
THe reason I ask is because I was using my laptop with wifi downtown & I wasgetting a lot of unprotected networks. It amazes me how so many business can have unprotected wireles networks.

Cheers,
Aquaman
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driving through university buildings are the same thing. i sort of expected it though 🙂
 
Originally posted by: KirbsAw
my neighbor's network is unprotected, not sure which neighbor it is though
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in my building it's the apartment right below mine, but 4 floor down.
don't ask how i found that out 😉
 
Originally posted by: KirbsAw
Is wardriving legal? I mean they leave their network wide open....
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Wardriving isn't about using someone's network, it's just about finding it and wether it has WEP on or not.
 
Originally posted by: Bootprint
Originally posted by: KirbsAw
Is wardriving legal? I mean they leave their network wide open....
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Wardriving isn't about using someone's network, it's just about finding it and wether it has WEP on or not.
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Oh really? Whats it called if you actually use their network?
 
Originally posted by: Bootprint
Originally posted by: KirbsAw
Is wardriving legal? I mean they leave their network wide open....
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Wardriving isn't about using someone's network, it's just about finding it and wether it has WEP on or not.
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What the hell is the point then?
 
Originally posted by: KirbsAw
Originally posted by: Bootprint
Originally posted by: KirbsAw
Is wardriving legal? I mean they leave their network wide open....
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Wardriving isn't about using someone's network, it's just about finding it and wether it has WEP on or not.
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Oh really? Whats it called if you actually use their network?
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hacking them

if you take their info (credit card, etc) or give them viruses , then its cracking them
 
Just about every office building I go to nowadays has a WAP that is wide open to the public.

Not to mention the fact that my three neighbors (both sides and across the street) all have them wide open as well.
 
Originally posted by: KirbsAw
Originally posted by: UglyCassanova
Originally posted by: Bootprint
Originally posted by: KirbsAw
Is wardriving legal? I mean they leave their network wide open....
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Wardriving isn't about using someone's network, it's just about finding it and wether it has WEP on or not.
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What the hell is the point then?
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Thats what I was thinking 😀
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To see if they can hack into the network and steal information. The word came from wardialing, where someone would call all numbers in a given prefix to see if they can find a computer system that was connected via modem, then try to hack into the system. Matthew Broderick was wardialing in WarGames.
 
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