At least in my neighborhood, Linksys made a killing.
by admin on Sep.02, 2008, under Opinions
I’ve taken it upon myself to reduce the level of my own boredom over the past few days while school was out. So I went wardriving.
Definition:
Wardriving is the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless networks by a person in a moving vehicle, using a portable computer or PDA.
I used my MacBook Pro and my Xterra and browsed the various WiFi nets around here. I’m actually using one of them to type this right now. I’ve done this on foot for just a few of the houses right around mine and picked up quite a few. Upon driving the entire neighborhood, I found 99 different networks, and I think I may have missed a few. They are about 50/50, open/secure, but the majority of them were named “linksys” and were open. A few “NETGEAR” networks, and only one “dlink” network was found. A good group of home-network-admins were smart and renamed and secured their network, but so many people are not so tech savvy.
Now I just need to build my own Cantenna…
I plan to incorporate “Wardriving” into one of the stories I am working on. But that’s all you get to hear about that, for now.
- Robert
