[Cialug] [NEWS] War driving reveals vulnerablewirelessnetworks

Dwight Hubbard cialug@cialug.org
Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:21:28 -0600 (CST)


Considering all the people the RIAA has been suing of late, I'm surprised
more people aren't worried that someone will use their internet connection
to download copyrighted material and it would get traced back to them. 
After all, it would not be to hard to put a car adapter on a laptop and
park the car in range of an open AP.

> 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.