RE: Re: [Netstumbler] Browse Networks

["Christian Flickinger" <spoon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Heated Debate! I guess it boils down to the fact that there are two kinds of war drivers.

 

One who wardrives as a sport, to collect statistical information as a hobby, and to take part in a growing community of wireless/802.11x enthusiasts.

And one who wardrives for the same purposes as above, but also illegally connects to, monitors, or browses through non public access points and either maliciously uses this power, or does it for curiousity and harms nothing.

 

 

The first mentioned is doing things how they should be done. The second is breaking laws, potentially destroying data, being snoopy, and giving wardriving a bad name. If anyone watches the news, any report they do about wireless networks usualy shows shadowed 'professional hackers' using 'state of the art technology' to 'break into, and gain access to' everyones confidential data (at which point, the report flashes credit cards and people sitting in front of a keyboard, and pans down a screen where somone has an email open to make it look all 1980's super-hackers dangerous)  *gasp*. That isnt true :-), but some people make it look like that.

 

Christian Flickinger
spoon@xxxxxxxxxx
www.spoonified.com
www.nexdot.net


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