NAC: Wifi .....WAS Subject: Re: bay area shop rec

[Rocky Mullin]

At 10:13 AM +0100 2/24/04, Phil Payne wrote:
>  > I just read on the plane in MobliePC mag or the like, a story about "war
>>  driving". These guys use software to check out everyone's home LAN 
>>& Wifi set up
>>  in communities.  Not so harmless until a savy WiFi user can check his router
>>  browser to see who's surfed his network........That's E-mail info and such.
>
>NetStumbler's quite a good product.  Interesting that the UK term is 
>"war walking" - we
>haven't all lost the use of our legs over here yet.

	and places tend to be closer together, IIRC.   SF is similar,
it's easy to walk a block at most and find a network to use.

>I'm waiting for the first RIIA lawsuit triggered by someone 
>downloading vast amounts of music
>over someone else's broadband.

	or using it to send spam.  also the other side can happen, people
can leave nets open for people to use and sniff all their packets.  "wide
open" is both ways, generally, unlike a bypass valve or something.  speaking
of, i put a stealth FX (GFB) on my A4.  interesting.  i can make it WOOSH
when approaching a bus stop and everyone looks up :)

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