[geeks] WiFi WarDriving

[Erie Patsellis]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>> Date: 2008/08/03 Sun PM 11:50:11 EDT
>> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: Re: [geeks] WiFi WarDriving
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>> On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 03:34:39PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
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>>> Honestly, I'm suprised how easy/quick it was to set up and do.
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>> It gets worse. Here we have a similar situation with "siemens". The local
>> telephone company had a deal where you could get a siemens wireless router
>> for 10 NIS ($3) a month for 2 years, and if you were a good customer, free.
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>> They came out of the box with no encryption or authentiation. While I
>> don't recommend that your average user use any authentication, I do
>> recommend any encryption, even 40/64 bit WEP. 
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> Comcast rolls out home WiFi with random-looking security strings (40/64 bit I think, not sure - I think we had a 25 character string?), but the user ID and password are consistent across their installs, so once I found my user id and password for my "comcast-supplied" router, I cna log into most neighbors boxes and futz with their settings...
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> I was able to map my results from my wardrive yesterday (150 miles +/- from Central NJ to Northwest CT), and I was amazed where I picked up some access points (across long yards/pastures)...
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> Lots of "BELKIN", "LINKSYS", and "NETGEAR" SSIDs with no, I say no protection...
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> Lionel
> The User ID / password is easily googled...
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> Lionel
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Lionel, out of curiosity, find any DD-WRTs?