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Exploring War Chalking: Risks Of Unsecured Wireless Networks

The trend is called war chalking. (It derives its name from the now-ancient practice of war dialing, in which hackers would set their modems to dial every telephone number in town, in search of other modem-connected computers.) Nowadays, some ingenious mobile . . . . The trend is called war chalking. (It derives its name from the now-ancient practice of war dialing, in which hackers would set their modems to dial every telephone number in town, in search of other modem-connected computers.) Nowadays, some ingenious mobile hackers do a war drive through cities, mapping any wireless network they find as they cruise past at 35 miles per hour. Some return to war-chalk the locations with the best networks. At last summer's DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas, I rode along with a team in the first-ever war-driving contest. More than 80 contestants raced through town for 2 hours, waving antennas out the windows of their cars. The team I observed found more than 200 wireless access points that had either no security or limited security within a 9-mile radius from our starting point just off the Strip. And the winning team found more than 500 vulnerable access points in the same amount of time. The link for this article located at PCWorld is no longer available. . Discover war chalking, a vintage method for identifying unprotected wireless networks in particular locations.. War Chalking, Wifi Security, Wireless Access Points, Network Privacy, Hacking Techniques. . Anthony Pell

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