Pages Tagged “wardriving”
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- We know where your network is
Apparently wardrivers (people who cruise neighborhoods with a laptop looking for open wireless networks) have been submitting their findings to WiGLE—a searchable database and interactive map of wireless access points. Already checked—our home network isn’t in there. (As much as I’ve locked it down, it had better not be!) But they do list several in […]
- Warspamming
Via Email Battles: First ‘warspamming’ case reaches court. Basically the guy (allegedly) drove around LA with a laptop looking for insecure wireless networks, then connected to them and sent spam using people’s home accounts. The term comes from wardriving — driving around looking for unsecured networks — and warchalking — marking walls or sidewalks to […]