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How To Defeat The Wardriving Spamlords
Leader With these measures in place, wardriving will be a thing of the past - and the sleepy town of Los Angeles will once again be safe for honest street gangs to go about their business. When it comes to sin, Los Angeles has an unparalleled record of...
[October 1, 2004, 12:00]
Wardriving Sparks Wireless Treasure Hunt
News A group of wireless networking enthusiasts are gearing up to hold a Wi-Fi treasure hunt. The event will take place on 7 December in New Zealand, and is being organised by NZWireless -- an organisation that is helping to drive the rollout of...
[November 14, 2003, 15:30]
How To Defeat The Wardriving Spamlords
Talkback As for police wardriving and ticketing, I don’t believe it’s a feasible plan, as the number of hotspots will grow exponentially in the next few years. As James the hotel GM demonstrates, ignorance of Wi-Fi security issues is widespread, even...
[October 13, 2004, 16:52]
How To Defeat The Wardriving Spamlords
Talkback Question: Now why in the world would a person put their personal info on a pc anyway? Simply amazes me!
[November 23, 2004, 7:38]
How To Defeat The Wardriving Spamlords
Talkback I only use non-secure networks for downloading music and movies not for spamming. Im glad in Florida people are dumb enough to not secure there wi-fi spots
[October 5, 2004, 18:43]
How To Defeat The Wardriving Spamlords
Talkback The police and the FCC should definitely be taking action on this, and legislators and the judiciary should be backing them up on this. I totally agree that we need to stop pussy-footing around on this issue.
[October 5, 2004, 3:11]
How To Defeat The Wardriving Spamlords
Talkback So using this same, dare I say, logic if I leave my car unlocked, it gets stolen and someone is killed by the thief while driving it, I am responsible? This is the dumbest article I have ever read.
[October 4, 2004, 17:07]
How To Defeat The Wardriving Spamlords
Talkback Oh yeah, let's have the Police doing their own wardriving, looking for open access points! You are kidding, right? How can anyone justify using taxpayer money to impliment, let alone run, this idea? Don't you think the Police have enough on their...
[October 4, 2004, 15:51]
How To Defeat The Wardriving Spamlords
Talkback What a moron. The ignorance of the people writing here never ceases to amaze me. Good to see that ZDNet is an equal opportunity employer and doesn't discriminate against the mentally challenged.
[October 4, 2004, 15:48]
How To Defeat The Wardriving Spamlords
Talkback This writer must be smoking crack! I can see it now Citizen: "Officer.Officer that man just stole my purse" Policeman: "Ma'am please hold on I have 2 unsecure access points and I need to call in backup.
[October 4, 2004, 15:03]
How To Defeat The Wardriving Spamlords
Talkback So you're saying that my 112 room hotel, which provides easy wireless access to the internet would face criminal charges for providing this amenity to the guests. What does the RIAA have to do with the fact that the guests at my hotel provieds easy...
[October 2, 2004, 0:52]
Bluesocket Scans The Spectrum For Wardriving
News Wireless-security firm Bluesocket launched a WLAN monitoring system on Tuesday that protects enterprises from unwanted wireless visitors. The product can also alert administrators if their network is being probed by a wardriver.
[July 20, 2004, 16:35]
'Wardriver' First To Be Convicted Under US Anti-spam Law
News The novelty of wardriving is wearing off, but the fear is those who are malicious, and the threat of installing viruses or spyware onto a network and computer. Nicholas Tombros admitted driving around Venice, California, last year, searching for...
[October 1, 2004, 9:35]
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]
We're Going To War(driving)
Talkback Chatting to one of BT's execs yesterday, he did actually say something to the effect of "we're making wardriving legal". So, you're pretty much correct!
[October 5, 2007, 10:14]
Wi-Fi 'wartrappers' Snare The Drive-by Hackers
News He plans to publish some results in the next month or two, which will give an idea of the level of the much discussed threat of "wardriving", where hackers outside an office gain access to unsecured wireless access points.
[October 9, 2002, 12:21]
Alleged TJX Hackers Charged
News The Department of Justice alleges that Gonzalez and co-conspirators obtained the credit- and debit-card numbers by 'wardriving', or touring around testing wireless computer networks for vulnerabilities, then hacking into them.
[August 6, 2008, 13:34]
Software Tool Steals Data Via Bluetooth
News The growing prevalence of people using Bluetooth-enabled devices equipment is likely to follow the trend of Wi-Fi wardriving, in which people try to identify inadequately secured networks by driving around with a laptop.
[August 15, 2003, 10:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If it was wardriving, then it was very well funded and not very well disguised: the way to do it is to stuff the equipment into the pannier of a rusty moped, stick a big red L on the back and rubber band a grotty list of streets to a perspex...
[August 1, 2003, 18:10]
Does Wi-Fi Security Matter?
News Hottell said the wardriving team had not attempted to hack any systems or read any network traffic. A large percentage of Wi-Fi networks are "horribly insecure", according to researchers at Indiana University.
[June 27, 2006, 13:00]
