Wardriving While Intoxicated:

What is Wardriving?:

According to Google define: "Wardriving is the term for finding and marking the locations and status of wireless networks. Wardrivers typically use software to determine whether the network is open or closed and a Global Position System device to record the location. A wardriver marks the spot either by using a symbol written in chalk on a building near the spot -- known as warchalking -- or mapping the locations and posting it on the Internet"

Bob's Wardriving setup:

As you can see, the art of wardriving is a fairly simple process, only a few readily available pieces of equipment and software are needed.
netstumbler wificard laptop streetsandtrips gps cantenna(click on numbers to enlarge)
  1. A laptop computer
  2. Wifi card or dongle
  3. GPS receiver
  4. wifi detection software (such as Netstumbler, for Windows; Kismet for Linux, and Macstumbler for Macintosh computer)
  5. mapping software (such as Microsoft's Streets and Trips)*
  6. wifi antenna (optional: helps to extend the range of your wifi card)

*Graphing entries to a map is usually done post process, however, there are programs available that can actively graph during wardriving sessions, but it requires Mappoint as the mapping software which is many times more expensive than Streets&Trips.

Map of wifi points in Columbus, NE:

Note: All sectors have now been scanned. The total number of unique APs/Adhoc points found so far is 572. 220 AP's were found to have WEP Enabled. 352 AP's were found to have WEP Disabled.

 

red= WEP Enabled network, blue= WEP Disabled network
All entries in table format.

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