Wardriving?

[Gabbe]

war driving, good or bad?

Wardriving is driving around and hack into someones network that yo pick up, and then you can do whatever you want with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving


Wardriving is the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless networks by a person in a moving vehicle, using a portable computer or PDA.

Software for wardriving is freely available on the Internet, notably NetStumbler for Windows, Kismet or SWScanner for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and Solaris, and KisMac for Macintosh. There are also homebrew wardriving applications for handheld game consoles that support Wi-fi, such as sniff_jazzbox/wardive for the Nintendo DS, Road Dog for the Sony PSP, WiFi-Where for the iPhone, and G-MoN and Wardrive for the Android operating system and WlanPollution for Symbian NokiaS60 devices. There also exists a mode within Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops for the Sony PSP (wherein the player is able to find new comrades by searching for wireless access points) which can be used to wardrive. Treasure World for the DS is a commercial game in which gameplay wholly revolves around wardriving.

[-Archmage-]

What good could happen from hacking someones network, most of us have already seen the effect hacking has on games...

[John.d.h]

It's not really hacking, since we're talking about unsecured networks, right?  I mean, if you're driving around, you'd have to park for quite a while to actually crack anybody's password.

[ElimiNator]

There was this house and we couldn't find out the password and he randomly typed Telus (That was the name of there provider) and it worked!
So it doesn't always take that long. 

[Gabbe]

I think aprovider with name "syslink" or something always has "admin" as password.

[xxcatmysteryxx]

I think it can be both good and bad. Like if your using it to just get on the internet like me then thats good but if you use it in the wrong way and hack the network thats bad

[Gabbe]

I think it can be both good and bad. Like if your using it to just get on the internet like me then thats good but if you use it in the wrong way and hack the network thats bad

same thing...

[Omega]

What's the point of driving around, trying to hack a network? Just drive around till you find one without a password (and that's technically legal.... I think... Well, easier at least  )