wardriving:
<security> (From wardialer in the "carrier scanner" sense of
that word) To drive around with a laptop with a wireless
card, and an antenna, looking for accessible wireless
networks.
I had my first wardriving experience tonight, and it was pretty neat.
My laptop has built in wifi but we stuck in a cisco card because it was more powerful. As soon as we left the house and turned on netstumbler we found a bunch of access points, and i was shocked to see just how many people don't bother to use encryption. (take into account my location
) We were out for just over 2 hours, and found 167 APs, over half which were unencrypted. 44 had the default SSID (linksys, NETGEAR, wireless, wLAN etc)
We used an app called
Gfi LANguard to scan networks. Again, i was surprised at the utter lack of security most people have (passwordless shares).
Anyhow, i dropped a certain hello.jpg file into a few computers but didn't cause any harm. I browsed the web, talked on irc, and generally made use of having the web in the car, miles from home.
How many of you have gone wardriving? Do you do it on a regular basis? Any good stories?