Warchalking: London Wi-Fi guerrillas take tips from hobos
News But warchalking is remarkable because it is based on an ad hoc process of people discovering Wi-Fi nodes -- whether commercial or not -- and signalling their presence with chalk symbols. The idea of the warchalking blog was to put an imperfect idea...
[June 26, 2002, 14:48]
Warchalking: London Wi-Fi guerrillas take tips from hobos
Talkback Could someone please publish a list of components and average prices to connect my two PCs and Sony Notebook using wireless, I am hoping to contact my home computers from my Camprhiler whilst touring this comming summer
[February 20, 2004, 18:38]
BT: It's not good to chalk
News BTopenworld is warning 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 released this week, the ISP says that the rise of...
[September 27, 2002, 16:55]
Heard of drive-by hacking? Meet drive-by spamming
News This has already led to the practice of 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 indicate the presence of a wireless networking...
[September 5, 2002, 16:54]
Want Wi-Fi with that?
News It even will start "warchalking," or marking, the sidewalks outside of the delis offering the free service. Originally an underground system of notifying users of free wireless systems, warchalking is increasingly going mainstream.
[November 11, 2002, 8:44]
Wednesday
Blog Here's a good one for your list of hip jargon terms: warchalking. Wednesday 26/06/2002 As Matt Loney -- news mogul of ZDNet UK and proud new father (congrats! reports, those who drive around our cities sniffing out open wireless networks are no...
[June 28, 2002, 17:44]
Wi-Fi 'wartrappers' snare the drive-by hackers
News One conference delegate noted that if the idea takes off, it is easy to imagine that the hacker community will respond with a new warchalking symbol. A "honeypot" trap consisting of a Wi-Fi-equipped laptop is the latest weapon against drive-by...
[October 9, 2002, 12:21]
Tuesday
Blog It does open up the possibility that those young warchalking dudes who plod the streets looking for open wireless connectivity may be getting more than they expect. Tuesday 17/09/2002 News comes in from the US where a publicity-minded chap with a...
[September 20, 2002, 17:59]
