[Courses] [Security] Patriot & war driving (was: Nmap...)

[Jp Calderone]

    Some more history, if anyone is interested:  War driving derives 
from "war dialing",
the practice of having a computer automatically dial a (usually large) 
range of telephone
numbers, looking numbers attached to modems - potential targets.  "War 
dialing" comes
from the movie 80's movie "War Games" wherein Matthew Broderick's 
character has
his computer set up to do this.

Raven, corporate courtesan wrote:

>Heya --
>
>Quoth coldfire (Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 07:42:06PM -0500):
>
>>yeah, the patriot BS is old news ... there's some new legislation that's
>>been passed in addition to the patriot.  it makes activities such as war
>>driving illegal i believe ... :(
>>
> 
>	For the newbies: war driving is a relatively recent phenomenon,
>since wireless networks started getting popular.  Since most people that
>install a wireless LAN don't bother to (or can't) dampen the signal
>enough that you can't access it outside their building, it's easy to
>steal bandwidth.  All you have to do is get a laptop with a wireless
>card, install Aerosniff (like a packet sniffer, but for wireless
>rather than for Ethernet), and literally drive around town looking for
>areas with wireless traffic.  Once you find one, it's generally trivial
>to steal their bandwidth.  Hence, war driving.
>
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