Re: Alberta hackers find wireless networks wide open

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Forwarded from: Kurt Seifried <listuser () seifried org>

Actually when I did a quick wardrive of Edmonton I hit my first
wireless LAN <2 minutes from starting (but it was wep enabled, which
was good), unfortunately I found more like 75-80% were completely
insecure, and the coolest thing is I was able to get a few hits on
downtown 802.11 access points from across the river valley (so line of
sight, but a good mile or so). I also tried "wardriving" just leaving
my laptop in connect mode, i.e. not running netstumbler/etc, it
connected succesfully to wlan AP's a dozen time or so while I was
driving around (just need to convince more people to buy AP's so we
can have free mobile inet =). Driving up and down calgary trail
quickly also resulted in mass amounts of insecure wlans. Reminds me of
driving home from calgary, I was bored so turned the laptop on, while
doing 120 kph I was able to pick up two dozen wlan on highway 2 just
coming out of calgary (didn't expect that).


Kurt Seifried, kurt () seifried org
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