-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. schreef:
The Monday 2007-09-17 at 17:12 +0200, M9. wrote:
You know that there are handheld gadgets that you carry in your pocket when you have a walk and beep or buzz when they detect a wifi. I have been told of people doing it in their cars, putting a special aerial with a magnet on the car roof. They can use a portable computer running a certain windows program that detects the networks it finds, and writes all that in a report. Plus, if connected to a GPS and a map software, it plots the findings in the map, with colors showing how "kind" are the neighbors.
The person that told me this said that they were thinking on doing this for their final project on university, and had a round of the industrial park here with that setup. The findings were very /interesting/, but refrained from making them public.
But I had seen a similar report published in an article by the IEEE, it wasn't news to me.
Not your case, but people should be way more cautious with their wifis. On another message I wrote a sample of what damage can get done to such trusting users.
I know this is true, because a friend of mine for years allways only uses some neighbours wifi-networks, he says that they pay for it anyway, if he uses them or not, but he only uses the internet connection, and does not intrude their networks or pc's. I have tried to crack mine, but only thing that happened was that the whole network went down every time... ;-) - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.22.5-10-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: monkey9@tribal-sfn2 Systeem: openSUSE 10.3 (X86-64) Beta3 KDE: 3.5.7 "release 58" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG78uDX5/X5X6LpDgRAgHhAKDOgmEXVOgPcqK86vlWD6aR6Fdh7ACgpSGE zCY5QxYPBwRTFU0+bkB/E50= =mrbB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org