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Carlos E. R. schreef: > > The Monday 2007-09-17 at 17:12 +0200, M9. wrote: > > > You know that there are handheld gadgets that you carry in your pocket > when you have a walk and beep or buzz when they detect a wifi. I have been > told of people doing it in their cars, putting a special aerial with a > magnet on the car roof. They can use a portable computer running a certain > windows program that detects the networks it finds, and writes all that in > a report. Plus, if connected to a GPS and a map software, it plots the > findings in the map, with colors showing how "kind" are the neighbors. > > The person that told me this said that they were thinking on doing this > for their final project on university, and had a round of the industrial > park here with that setup. The findings were very /interesting/, but > refrained from making them public. > > But I had seen a similar report published in an article by the IEEE, it > wasn't news to me. > > > Not your case, but people should be way more cautious with their wifis. On > another message I wrote a sample of what damage can get done to such > trusting users. > I know this is true, because a friend of mine for years allways only uses some neighbours wifi-networks, he says that they pay for it anyway, if he uses them or not, but he only uses the internet connection, and does not intrude their networks or pc's. I have tried to crack mine, but only thing that happened was that the whole network went down every time... ;-) - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.22.5-10-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systeem: openSUSE 10.3 (X86-64) Beta3 KDE: 3.5.7 "release 58" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG78uDX5/X5X6LpDgRAgHhAKDOgmEXVOgPcqK86vlWD6aR6Fdh7ACgpSGE zCY5QxYPBwRTFU0+bkB/E50= =mrbB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
