WiFi "war flying"

On Sat, 01 May 2004 12:01:16 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

A Cessna 172 and Piper Cherokee go on an aerial hunt for WiFi
access points over the L.A. basin. They find over 4500, and
and successfully run Netmeeting betewen the aircraft.

Why?

Well, the Netmeeting point isn't relevant, but the 'warmarking'
certainly is. Basically, they found 4500 access points in a short
time, most of them without encryption enabled.

There are Wifi / GPS logging programs that will capture and then plot
location of Wifi access points. This info is then posted to various
websites which detail locations of Wifi networks.

Hackers can then go to the Wifi network (park their car outside) and
either get free internet access, OR try to hack into computers on the
network.

If you have Wifi at your home or small office, turn encryption on, and
change encryption keys frequently. It is not foolproof, but it does
make it more difficult to gain unauthorized network access.

-Nathan