Umm - for the fun of it?!? I know of a number of script kiddies that have driven around the countryside hereabouts with a laptop, a wireless card, and sniffer for the sole purpose of seeing what they can find.
A lot of "normal" neighbourhoods these days have a number of houses close enough together to be well within the range of most wireless products. Imagine this scenario - Hacker Bob starts driving through the suburbs of Fairfax County looking for home wireless networks. Every time he gets a "hit" he logs the location on his handy dandy GPS. After some time he has fair amount of information. So he goes back in the dead of night to find what he can "see". Hey!! He just managed to connect to a home network. Hmmm.... let's see what my sniffer can uncover. Oh my.... VPN traffic!! I wonder if I can connect to the system that is the source of the VPN traffic? Yup!! Ok - now where does the VPN tunnel go........ I'm sure you get the picture. Now imagine that Hacker Bob compiles his list of wireless nodes that he has in his GPS and distributes them on the underground. Come to think of it - it has probably already been done. Brian -----Original Message----- From: Doug Wombles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 3:01 PM To: Monkman, Brian; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Wireless LAN for the Home network. [snip] Besides, unless you live in an apartment complex or you work for the CIA/FBI, why would a hacker waste their time sniffing in a normal neighborhood in the hopes that someone MIGHT have a wireless network in their home they can hack into? later dw
