[Cialug] [NEWS] War driving reveals vulnerable wireless networks

[reinstall hell]

i'll just keep my fingers crossed. i know in seattle there is a part of 
town that has about a a few dozen open networks of people who just share 
files/services/internet access, etc. would be nice if that could happen 
in other parts of the country. cut out the middleman (aka the teleco and 
cable companies.) and best of all most of it is open source.

some information about whats going on in seattle is at 
www.seattlewireless.net


Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:

>The only problem with that is that you would have to access multiple
>networks from a single location. they'd all have to be on the same
>channel, and would you eventually run into some throughput limitations
>of the 802.11x protocal...
>
>Interesting thought, but my guess is that it would be too complex to
>actually make it work in the real world.
>
>On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 08:02, reinstall hell wrote:
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>>Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
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>>>You'd be surprised how widespread it is.  I did a quick little drive
>>>around my neighborhood. In a 3 block radius there were 6 unsecured
>>>networks. 
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>>>On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 07:15, reinstall hell wrote:
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>>>>http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2005/01/09/news/top_story/ee43d35dbbb5671786256f830083ce55.txt
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>>i'm waiting for the p2p apps to come out to take advantage of this. 
>>imagine sharing a handful of dsl/cable connections to download 1 file. 
>>you could pull some major bandwidth in.
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