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Un secured AP's

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  • 30-03-2003 5:12pm
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    sirlinux
    Registered Users Posts: 651 ✭✭✭


    My laptop came on the other day in my bag on the way to work walking across town, during that period it had managed to sign onto 2 different wireless networks and logged on msn messenger!! Didnt even realise it myself until people asked why i had been signing in and out of messenger early in the morning. How many people have unsecured AP's out there!!


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    #2
    echomadman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭echomadman


    get yourself a box of chalk

    http://www.warchalking.org/


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    quozl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭quozl


    if you're running windows get netstumbler
    http://www.netsumbler.org, and you can scan for AP's with most 802.11b/a cards.

    If you're running linux you can use the vastly superior kismet,
    http://www.kismetwireless.net
    which as well as doing everything netsumbler does, also detects cloaked (beacon packet off) networks, client traffic, ad-hoc networks. It can also dump packets in a format suitable for network analysers such as etheral, and the newer versions crack WEP without having to export it to an external program.

    Kismet's also entirely passive, which I've read netstumbler isnt.

    Greg


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    ondafly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭ondafly


    town sure is full of APs at the moment - i've counted 15 on my travels from d15 to d2, about 3 months ago - no doubt its expanded even further since then.


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    lynchie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,998 ✭✭✭lynchie


    Check out this site for a report on the number of 802.11b AP's in Dublin. The results are quite amusing - We must have ashortage of sys-admins :)

    Summary of Results
    Total number of stations
    378
    Stations with encryption
    146 (38.62%)
    Stations without encryption
    232 (61.38%)
    Results with GPS co-ordinates
    307 (81.22%)
    Results without GPS co-ordinates
    71 (18.78%)
    Stations with changed SSID
    322 (85.19%)
    Stations with default SSID
    56 (14.81%)
    Lowest Latitude (southmost)
    53.26997
    Highest Latitude (northmost)
    53.4135683
    Lowest Longitude (westmost)
    -6.424875
    Highest Longitude (eastmost)
    -6.102553


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