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| found this on the net and it cracked me up:
"Last time I was at the IETF, in Pittsburgh, Marconi was running the show and
gave everyone 802.11 cards. I plugged mine into my notebook and fired up my
Ethernet sniffer, which collected approximately 700+ webmail
username/password pairs, over 100 POP logins, a good littering of telnet
logins, a bunch of tunneled CIFS logins, and other assorted good stuff.
Enough to crack into a user account at a large portion of the represented
telco R&D firms. What I learned at IETF that year: the telecommunications
world was still too stupid to be allowed to own wireless ethernet." | |
| ccieToBe 2002-10-30, 2:42 pm |
| Haha, very true! Ever gone war driving? It's amazing how few networks have absolutelly no security, not even WEP. Not that I've ever done such a thing  | |
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| I just ordered an iPaq with an 802.11b setup, so I am thinking I might go up and down the neighborhood a couple of times and see what shakes out.
www.wardriving.com is a fun website by the way. Check this out: they have a version of linux dedicated to war driving, called WarLinux  | |
| ccieToBe 2002-10-30, 3:03 pm |
| Very nice. I've been wanting to get one of those for a while. My 3 year old PDA serves me well in every other respect, but AFAIK, doesn't have much in the way of 802.11b support or expandability. Let us know what you think of the iPaq.
I was actually walking around my neigborhood yesterday, testing out the range of my network. All the neighbors who were probably already questioning my mental state now know I'm totaly insane. I was walking down the street - laptop in one hand, large panel antenna in the other yelling 2 milliseconds!....3 milliseconds!  | |
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| lol  Wish I had been there to see that! It could have been fun to witness, take a quick film, and post it on examnotes or mcsefreak.com for all to see | |
| Supertech 2002-10-30, 3:35 pm |
| Warchalking
Collaboratively creating a hobo-language for free wireless networking.
http://www.warchalking.org/ | |
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| yeah I was readin about this warchalking thing the other day. Sadly enough, there are no manifestations of it here where I live... | |
| enforcer 2002-10-31, 4:43 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by ccieToBe
I was walking down the street - laptop in one hand, large panel antenna in the other yelling 2 milliseconds!....3 milliseconds!
reminds me of when a friend of mine and me did a similar thing when cordless phones hit the UK (these were american imports as there was none produced for the UK market yet), we had initiated a call between us, and each walked out the door of our houses(we lived about 2 miles apart) and started walking as far away as poss before we lost communication, got quite far, did it again with the same phones 4 yrs later, after UK approved phones were getting popular and didn't get half the distance. 
NB i am talking about cordless phones that operate off your normal landline, not mobile/cell phones. |
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