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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24what do you call it when you just steal a neighbors wifi from your house, war-couching? Cause that's seriously picked up speed...
- daveddd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20"War driving picks up speed"????
This is done almost everynight by lots of people. The headline should read...
"Reporters/Average Joe gets up to speed on what the heck is going on" - tdhurst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7hahahahahaha....
I do the same in my apartment, so maybe I'm war-lounging? - greenamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6OMG my internets are broadcast outside my home and other people with wireless cards designed to pick up the same internets signals are picking it up! Oh Noes they will identity theft me and make my kids watch porn!
- n0sferatu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8"Holy cow-dude!"? What's a cow-dude? ;-)
- paleck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Wardriving has been around for awhile. A cant beilive the media is even still writing about it.
- rushiku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I think that's the lead-in for tonight's episode of FUD Weekly
Won't it be great when we're older, running out of the house, shaking our fists, shouting "You damn kids! Get off my internets, you're clogging the pipes!" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"'Jeff,' a Janesville teenager uses an anntenna to 'war drive,' or tap into wireless computer networks.
Dan Lassiter/Gazette Staff"
Wardriving is just scanning for networks.
This is bad journalism. - PopcornDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@tdhurst
Only with cocktail in hand. Then it's true war-lounging. :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's okay, in return the neighbor have hidden a spy cam in your bathroom. I think you should avoid googling your name, though, you would not be very pleased by the search results.
- blankman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4most people I know don't even care that their Wifi is not secured no matter how much I tell them how important it is.
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4is driving even really necessary now? it's more like war walking.
- lozaning, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5" We get 23 hits in four blocks of downtown Janesville. Six were not secure. Some of those were "Wi-Fi" systems intended for public access."
sucks for him. i can walk down the street around the corner and back down to my house less then a 1/2 mile round trip, and can pick up at least 165 with my ***** home made parabolic reflector. - tech42er, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4WHAT? War driving is driving around looking for unsecured WiFi networks? Dman, I was hoping it would be really aggressive underground races! : (
- Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You guys remember the sidewalk chalkers?
Good times - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6i use wardriving to install keyloggers onto my neighbour's computers. I think one of them suspects something though.....
- MateFrio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think wardriving is like watching everyone's crotch looking for an open zipper then laughing about it with your friends.
- Salmonized, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I'd call it...making the best use of available resources....
- dattaway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wardriving is so 1990's when 802.11 first came out and we were aware it was a totally open network. Several years ago it was exciting to find a hotspot, because it was uncommon and difficult to get a connection on the go. It was great for testing old pranks too, like anonymous emailing and spoofing. Most people then were early adopters and hacking the limits of range and connectivity was a competitive game. There were wardriving competitions where teams would do battle with what they could do with so little.
Today everyone has a high speed connection. My neighbors have thiers open and I do too. If mine goes down, my computers connect to them and vice-versa. Although I could leach off next door, I prefer to abuse my own broadband connection. Am I worried my neighbors might learn more about me or hack into my lifestyle? They could easily do far worse by social engineering, but most neighbors have a vested interest in developing good relationships. - TwistTim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I use a simple program to do this, while I travel, and it's because I'm bored, I could steal access, but that is not the thing I do.... I have a few friends I go to, or go to my college and sit in the lounge and use that wifi access.....they don't card students for access rights.... oh, and I don't need to use a fancy tin can or even a pringles can, with this program I just need my regular wireless card....it's that simple to do it with that program....just surf the net for that stumble program...
- Mambo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Thats considered main stream news?
- EricTheGrey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"War driving is not illegal, but it could easily lead to a crime. So we have parental permission for this field trip. But I don't want to get him into trouble. Let's call him Jeff."
... and then we take a picture of him with a baseball cap covering his shaved head. Yea, that will do a lot to 'protect' the kid.
Yea, I have to agree. This article is old news.
EtG - Nyana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, you'd be clogging the tubes.
- Nave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've secured mine by listing the MAC addresses that are allowed to use it and changing the password to log into the settings.
Think that is good enough?
I don't wardrive or anything like that but I am worried about people trying to gain access to my computers or using them to do stuff like download music (so that they IP address that the RIAA finds is mine). Where can I find info on how people use unsecured networks to gain access to machines?
Thanks,
Nave - wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If that was the low man job... I would hate to see what the guy that the boss liked did.
- itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1heh, yeh rather plane and outdated, but it was unbiased and informative. I could show this to people i know hadn't heard of this and may never if i don't show it to them
- Goner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1and you're gonna call the police when one of them beats your ass out by the garbage cans, right?
- Goner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.netstumbler.com/
- Nyana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All someone has to do to break your access-list like that is to change their MAC address to one that's on the allowed list. More importantly than who's accessing it, is what information is carried. If your network is unencrypted, someone can just sniff your traffic as it flies through the air. A lot of things, like say, some instant messenger conversations are unencrypted, ready for the viewing of anyone who cares to see.
Most people "break in" to machines when the users basically leave everything open on the network... free access to the printer, access to documents, writeable folders, things like that. If you keep your network services down (turn off sharing and such), for all intents and purposes, you'll be fine.
Really, WEP isn't perfect, but it's more than enough for most people. The thing is, that although sure, you can break WEP with a little work, 99% of people won't. Why bother trying to break someones encryption when there are dozens of unsecure networks around? Unless you're the only one with a wireless connection in an entire zone, I'd be fine with just WEP.
For the record, I use WPA on my personal network.. it's always a good idea to use the best that you've got avalible. - Goner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1those bulls with udders in a recent children's movie...
- Rotkiv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah, they were doing stories like this on prime time news years ago.
- drewskyjones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is a weak article and the reporter is an idiot. So in response, I will simply NOT digg the article. I'm glad some of you were amused by it or the nostalgia, therefore I will NOT mark it as lame and attempt to bury it.
- gib0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@TwistTIM: or you could just link peopl to http://www.netstumbler.org
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I don't understand why this article was dugg so much.
What the ***** people. - noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1You got it in one. The whole thing is more remiscent of a story from 2002 than today.
All we need now is a mention of chalking and it's nostalgia city. (Except that you never hear about chalking these days...)
This is a real "Ric Romero"-style report. - lozaning, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1do i really need to post the netstumbler log?
- GusTurbo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I don't really see the point of wardriving. Sounds pretty boring to me. No digg.
- n3tfury, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3liar.
- dziban303, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6Wardriving was cool back a few years ago when we could park off the Strip and get unfettered access to three or four major casinos' network, but not a whole hell of a lot else.
These days its a question of whats the point. Wait. Maybe it always was?
I caught someone trying to use my network once. I got so mad I deleted as much ***** on his HDD as I could. Ain't I a stinker?
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