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BT: It's not good to chalk

...of the dangers of operating insecure wireless local area networks, claiming that warchalking can encourage malicious hackers to break into corporate networks. In a guide... Read more

27 September, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Warchalking: London Wi-Fi guerrillas take tips from hobos

...symbols to signal where they can get a decent wireless Internet connection. Warchalking, as the practice has been coined by founder Matt Jones, entails simply... Read more

26 June, 2002 by Matt Loney

Wi-Fi 'wartrappers' snare the drive-by hackers

...easy to imagine that the hacker community will respond with a new warchalking symbol. Perhaps, he remarked, this would be a "Pooh" style honeypot marked... Read more

9 October, 2002 by Peter Judge

Heard of drive-by hacking? Meet drive-by spamming

...wardriving, where people drive around cities looking for insecure wireless LANs, and warchalking, where hackers drawing a chalk symbol on a wall or pavement to... Read more

5 September, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...Here's a good one for your list of hip jargon terms: warchalking. As Matt Loney -- news mogul of ZDNet UK and proud new father... Read more

28 June, 2002 by Rupert Goodwins

First 'warchalking' now 'warspamming

Coming to a curb near you... Read more

6 September, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...around the place. It does open up the possibility that those young warchalking dudes who plod the streets looking for open wireless connectivity may be... Read more

20 September, 2002 by Rupert Goodwins

Wednesday

...Here's a good one for your list of hip jargon terms: warchalking. As Matt Loney -- news mogul of ZDNet UK and proud new father... Read more

28 June, 2002

Want Wi-Fi with that?

...with plans to expand it in the future. It even will start "warchalking," or marking, the sidewalks outside of the delis offering the free service... Read more

11 November, 2002 by Lisa M Bowman

Tuesday

...around the place. It does open up the possibility that those young warchalking dudes who plod the streets looking for open wireless connectivity may be... Read more

20 September, 2002

Cable companies cracking down on Wi-Fi

US customers who use their broadband to set up Wi-Fi hot spots, which are free for others to use, are being threatened with losing their connection Read more

9 July, 2002 by Ben Charny

BT says: Protect your network from professional hackers

...BT Openworld has this week thrown its weight behind the fight against 'Warchalking' - the practice of scrawling chalk marks on the outside of buildings with... Read more

2 October, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

BT hits out at warchalkers

...wireless network... BT Openworld has thrown its weight behind the fight against 'Warchalking' - the practice of scrawling chalk marks on the outside of buildings with... Read more

30 September, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

BT warns: It's not good to chalk

...chalk talk... BT Openworld has thrown its weight behind the fight against 'Warchalking' - the practice of scrawling chalk marks on the outside of buildings with... Read more

30 September, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Should wireless LAN access be free?

...network and surf till their fingers are sore. All the nonsense about warchalking in the press recently was very entertaining, but there are just too... Read more

17 July, 2002 by silicon.com staff

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