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Using wireless computers to find and 'plug into' wireless networks, often without the owner's permission or knowledge.
 
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WARDRIVING News, Definition, and Links. also: war drivingWardriving
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  • "... net-stumbling, also known as war-driving, involves moving around a city using a Wi-Fi ready PC searching for networks that are otherwise invisible Dozens of Web sites contain detailed maps showing the locations of these networks and whether or not they're open for anyone to use."

  • "War driving involves roaming around a neighborhood looking for the increasingly numerous “hot spots” where high-speed Internet access is beamed to a small area by a low-power radio signal, thanks to a scheme called Wireless Fidelity. Imagine your computer as a walkie-talkie, but instead of talking, you’re getting high-speed Internet access. Wi-Fi, as it’s generally called (propellerheads call it 802.11b), has unexpectedly emerged as the wireless world’s Maltese Falcon, something truly lustworthy and, once possessed, impossible to let go of."
    • NET + WEB News, Tools, + Links.20020610 "Wild About Wi-Fi:  Rising from the grass roots, high-speed wireless Internet connections are springing up everywhere. Tune in, turn on, get e-mail. Sometimes for free."  -By Steven Levy and Brad Stone -Newsweek

  • "There are so many Wi-Fi networks in San Francisco these days that I was able to drive through most of the city without ever going out of range (the whole time with a souped-up Pringles can attached to my laptop; more on that later). The practice is called war driving — after the old hacker game of war dialing, which is what Matthew Broderick was doing in War Games but with far fewer unintended consequences."
    • 20020609 "The Pringles Solution:  Free networks are in the air, everywhere. You can find them with a laptop and a can of chips" -By Chris Taylor  -TIME.com 

  • "... a Compaq iPaq, armed with Mini Stumbler, wireless network-sensing software tailored to handheld devices. On the roof of the car sits an unobtrusive omnidirectional antenna – we could be in any car, in any major city. We plug the antenna into the portable PC and within a matter seconds the screen springs to life having detected five wireless networks. None carry the small padlock denoting encrypted data."

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    "We are Wardriving in Sydney, sniffing out the telltale signals of 802.11 wireless LANs."
  • "Techie folklore says that "war drivers" -- wireless hackers who cruise the streets in cars tricked out with giant antennae and military-strength amplifiers -- can surf any local Wi-Fi network at will. Maybe they can, but I can't."
    • NET + WEB News, Tools, + Links. 20020305 "Waiting for Wi-Fi:  Outside of airports and Starbucks, the wireless Net is still hanging fire. You can build your own node, but who'll hook you up with the rest of the world?" (1, 2, 3) -By Paul Boutin -Salon

  • The Pringles can solution explained, with pictures, and a Parts list:

  • "War Driving"

  • "Many here believe that hackers are already cruising around metropolitan areas in cars and on bicycles, with their laptops listening for the beacons of wireless networks. Using such a network doesn't even require special software or hardware, an ordinary $150.00 consumer wireless card will latch on to the beacons and put you on the net."

    "Grand computer capers will be pulled off, not from bedrooms and college dorms, but from windowless vans in company parking lots, and from park benches and empty stairwells. "It's fun, it's the new thing," says Wysopal. "It's kind of like war dialing: you never know what you're going to get.""

    "War dialing is the timeworn technique in which a hacker programs his or her system to call hundreds of phone numbers in search of poorly protected computer dial-ups. The name comes from the movie WarGames, which features Matthew Broderick performing the technique."



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  •  War-driving / +COMICS /
  •  O'Reilly Network: Doonesbury Character Caught Wardriving [October 01, 2002]

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