Wardriving/warwalking
21 May 2004, 10:36 AM
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Hi folks,
Has anyone here played with WiFi 'site-survey' (war-walking / war-driving) tools? I installed PocketWarrior on my iPaq yesterday, and within 5 minutes had recorded 11 access points. Only 4 of those had WEP enabled! Is that the sort of ratio you've found, or are my neighbours just naive or generous with their bandwidth?
Has anyone here played with WiFi 'site-survey' (war-walking / war-driving) tools? I installed PocketWarrior on my iPaq yesterday, and within 5 minutes had recorded 11 access points. Only 4 of those had WEP enabled! Is that the sort of ratio you've found, or are my neighbours just naive or generous with their bandwidth?
21 May 2004, 01:06 PM
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I've found it to be more like 1 in 10 have wep enabled on housing estates around here. Same ratio have bothered to change the default password on the router. Just about to order some kit to perform a full study for work.
21 May 2004, 01:07 PM
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I use Netstumbler on my laptop - so far found three networks locally - all protected. I'll keep trying though....
Most people are amazingly ignorant of the security risks associated with WiFi
Chris
Most people are amazingly ignorant of the security risks associated with WiFi
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A guy at work has been using Air Snort aswell - haven't tried it myself yet.
21 May 2004, 01:36 PM
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From reading the comments on that page, there's not many cards that have sockets for externals antennae (don't know how true that is). The reference to a parabolic dish antenna sounds interesting. Better for locating APs, if that's your aim (rather than merely detecting them).
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21 May 2004, 01:41 PM
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Nice little on topic presentation http://www.iceburnstudio.com/wardriv...les/frame.html
Will be using our - though not for long - wireless sniffer as well.
Will be using our - though not for long - wireless sniffer as well.
21 May 2004, 02:29 PM
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The range of most WiFi cards is going to be good enough to detect APs without too much problem. Buffalo's cards can accept external aerials if required.
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21 May 2004, 02:59 PM
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Dont need to drive or walk anywhere. I have a neighbour that happily shares his bandwidth with me 
The fool has an XP box, wireless network and get this, no password on his Admin account ???
The fool has an XP box, wireless network and get this, no password on his Admin account ???
21 May 2004, 09:28 PM
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