[Cialug] [NEWS] War driving reveals vulnerable wireless networks

[Jonathan Bailey]

The number of open networks is pretty bad. I drive about 2mi here in 
Altoona and picked up about 120 access points. Out of those, only about 
15-20 were secure.


Jon


reinstall hell wrote:

> i'll just keep my fingers crossed. i know in seattle there is a part 
> of town that has about a a few dozen open networks of people who just 
> share files/services/internet access, etc. would be nice if that could 
> happen in other parts of the country. cut out the middleman (aka the 
> teleco and cable companies.) and best of all most of it is open source.
>
> some information about whats going on in seattle is at 
> www.seattlewireless.net
>
>
> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
>
>> The only problem with that is that you would have to access multiple
>> networks from a single location. they'd all have to be on the same
>> channel, and would you eventually run into some throughput limitations
>> of the 802.11x protocal...
>>
>> Interesting thought, but my guess is that it would be too complex to
>> actually make it work in the real world.
>>
>> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 08:02, reinstall hell wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> You'd be surprised how widespread it is.  I did a quick little drive
>>>> around my neighborhood. In a 3 block radius there were 6 unsecured
>>>> networks.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 07:15, reinstall hell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2005/01/09/news/top_story/ee43d35dbbb5671786256f830083ce55.txt 
>>>>>
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>>> i'm waiting for the p2p apps to come out to take advantage of this. 
>>> imagine sharing a handful of dsl/cable connections to download 1 
>>> file. you could pull some major bandwidth in.
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