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Alright... I just got back from a weekend away from the haus...
Since I was driving for about 2 hours (from south side of Colorado Springs, Colorado up to Longmont, Colorado - in case any of you Colorado peeps feel like knowing. I took I-25 almost all the way) I figured I would take the opportunity to play with a few of the Wardriving utils that I have had laying around for a while.
Anyways, the results were interesting. I was scanning both driving up there and driving back, and the strech of road was something like 110 miles between starting point and destination. I was having a few issues with the network card drivers crapping themselves after scanning for extended periods, but in the end the results were still interesting. Also, I was only sniffing for wireless networks, not seeing if they would connect you to the internet or anything. Hardware used was a Dell Inspiron 3500 with a Microsoft MN-520 802.11b PCMCIA network card, no modification. I believe it is a PRISM2 based card, and I was doing in excess of 65 (sometimes by ~30mph) the whole time, so there are probably more that i could have picked up.
On the trip, I found a total of 163 wireless networks. Of those networks, 90 were not using WEP/WPA encryption. 19 used "default" as their SSID, 25 used "linksys" as their SSID, 6 used "Wireless" and a total of ~30 were set up using the default for the particular vendor.
so... does anyone else find those results particularly scary?
Since I was driving for about 2 hours (from south side of Colorado Springs, Colorado up to Longmont, Colorado - in case any of you Colorado peeps feel like knowing. I took I-25 almost all the way) I figured I would take the opportunity to play with a few of the Wardriving utils that I have had laying around for a while.
Anyways, the results were interesting. I was scanning both driving up there and driving back, and the strech of road was something like 110 miles between starting point and destination. I was having a few issues with the network card drivers crapping themselves after scanning for extended periods, but in the end the results were still interesting. Also, I was only sniffing for wireless networks, not seeing if they would connect you to the internet or anything. Hardware used was a Dell Inspiron 3500 with a Microsoft MN-520 802.11b PCMCIA network card, no modification. I believe it is a PRISM2 based card, and I was doing in excess of 65 (sometimes by ~30mph) the whole time, so there are probably more that i could have picked up.
On the trip, I found a total of 163 wireless networks. Of those networks, 90 were not using WEP/WPA encryption. 19 used "default" as their SSID, 25 used "linksys" as their SSID, 6 used "Wireless" and a total of ~30 were set up using the default for the particular vendor.
so... does anyone else find those results particularly scary?
i do the same thing. often. hehe.
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