RE: OT : GPS / Wardriving..?

["^mad^" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

what is the legality of scanning for nodes?

I guess using an non-public non-wep one is against computer misuse act?

ALi

-----Original Message-----
From: John Nye [mailto:john@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 August 2003 23:06
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT : GPS / Wardriving..?


I've played around a little with this. Loaded ministumbler on my ipaq with
an orinoco silver card out of curiosity and I managed to pick up a few
local
nodes.

So on a recent trip from N Wales to Liverpool I decided to use the PC card
jacket and orinoco rather than the Navman GPS and I detected nearly 40
nodes
(surprising how few have wep enabled!)

Then when we drove to Spain a few weeks ago I had another little play and
ended up sitting in a Restaurant surfing thanks to the supermarket next
door, but had to stop as SWMBO was getting a bit agitated as she thought
(probably rightly!) that we were breaking the law and would be encarcerated
for the rest of the holiday!!

John

----- Original Message -----
From: Marcus Warrington
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 2:51 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] OT : GPS / Wardriving..?


Does anyone have any knowledge/experience of wardriving..?

I've loaded netstumbler and was amazed to find a few nodes
on my journey into work, but I'm sure an external antenna
would help find more. This first tentative venture into
wardriving has fired me up to do more, does anyone have
recommendations for GPS units that I can hook up to a usb
port on the laptop (or in the future a Dell Axim) and use
netstumbler to map locations ? Ideally the same kit could
then be used for Navigation (I'm sure SWMBO would be impressed
at that.. as she could spend the trips asleep then:)

Whats the difference (in warchalking terms) between a
Closed Node and a Wep Node ?

Marcus