On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 21:38 -0700, Mike Hoy wrote:

> war driving is fun, but mostly a waste of time.
> 
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it's only a waste of time because you weren't motivated to do anything.

One day I was at a client's office and I was using my windows laptop
(remember my little guy) to program a cisco 678 (the routers with web
management port turned off - remember?) and I had the wireless card with
me. I had to wait around for their internet company to call back so I
was playing with my laptop and saw that a wireless base was operating in
the clear in his building.

Funny thing was, I had the AppleTalk program installed on this windows
laptop and I was able to connect to their wireless and connect to the
computers in their office - running filesharing without passwords
naturally and in 5 minutes, I was gathering lists of the files on their
computer. I printed a list of the files on one of the desktops and went
next door and suggested that this list was evidence that they needed to
secure their setup.

The boss was out. He called me back later that afternoon and accused me
of crashing their server...a strange way to say thanks for warning them
about their security issues. More evidence that no good deed goes
unpunished.

If you were motivated to get credit cards, social security numbers, bank
account numbers, pin numbers etc., war driving can make this easy.

Craig



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