[Bon mots]

BEWARE of "Wardrivers"!!!!

www.wardriving.com

[Professional Engineer]

Happens all the time in my area.

[Myrddin]

Limit your DHCP server to a list of MAC addresses associated with your 802.11x cards. Set a unique SSID. Set up WEP with 64 or 128 bits...use as many as you have. These features are universally available off the shelf. When you can lay your hands on the WPA upgrade, do it. It provides a rolling set of WEP type keys that change too fast for "wardriving" hackers to access.

[kingu]

Just out of curiosity, I powered up the laptop while waiting for the wife at the doctor's office. She's inside right now, I'm out in the car, and there are literally a dozen access points for my wi-fi enabled laptop.

Most of them are home networks in the surrounding neighborhood. There is a single subscription based tower.

I am, I suppose, technically stealing access to the Internet right now. Not something I plan on doing on a regular basis, but if I knew which house around here had the wireless hub that I'm using, I'd go knock, thank them, and offer a couple bucks for the use.

[Flyer]

BEWARE of "Wardrivers"!!!!

I use an iPAQ with WiFi and do "incidental" wardriving, I guess. Mostly I connect in hotel parking lots, but I have found a few individual open connections. I drive all day and use the connections to drop in here and our Houston Chapter forum just to keep up on he news.