[Techtalk] War flying in SiliValley

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On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 03:36, Akkana wrote:
> jennyw writes:
> > Ars Technica just published another story about war flying, this time in
> > Silicon Valley.  The results are interesting ...
> > 
> > http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/3q02/warflying-2.html
> > 
> > I thought I'd post this here since we've discussed WLANs before and
> > cruising around seeing if they're as easy to access as people say ...
> 
> When I got my 802.11b modem (for work, where I knew there was a network
> set up) I naturally wanted to play with it that night.  I downloaded
> a little package called xnetstrength mentioned by someone on one
> of the lists here, which basically just graphs the output of the
> appropriate /proc file; and then I watched the blips as we drove
> from San Jose up 880 and 101 to Mountain View (covering some of
> the same area that the Ars Technica article covers).
> 
> Basically, the meter was at zero the whole way except one tiny blip.
> We drove to my building at work, where I know there's a net, and
> walked up to the door: still nothing.  (I didn't have my badge with
> me that night, so didn't go in.)  After dinner we drove around a few
> business parks before going home ... still nothing.
> 
> The modem isn't broken -- it works fine when I'm on the second
> floor at work.  If I leave xnetstrength running and walk
> downstairs, it goes to zero about halfway down to the first floor
> (explaining why I didn't see anything that first night outside
> the front door).
> 
> Obviously all these people who are logging into nets at 4500 feet
> are doing something very different from what I'm doing.  
> What's the deal?
> 
> 	...Akkana

hi akkana,

yeah, using an antenna helps - but i've had good results wardriving with
just my buffalo pcmcia card (rebadged Lucent Orinoco)... 
i use airsnort or kismet... 

hth

m
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