Posted November 23, 200321 yr I've lost touch with the wireless technologies and this just caught my attention. War driving is going out with a laptop and wireless NIC and scanning for insecure wireless networks. -Have any of you tried this? -Can you look into people's shared folder/drives -Is it possible to borrow their internet connection WITHOUT their knowledge? Like i said i'm a bit behind with this kinda shit but it sounds interesting. Besides, it's completley legal.
November 23, 200321 yr yes its possible and hell no its not legal you take a laptop and a generec wireless NIC card and just walk around in office type places till you get a connection.. and if they have shared files and ICS then all the better
November 23, 200321 yr make a cantenna with a pringles can and copper wire, to extend range.... yes, you can detect a wireless network anywhere within your antenna's range...no it's not legal..."seeing" stufff on their computers is iffy...depends on what's shared in the network...basically you're doing the same thing as if you took your laptop into a house or office with a network, and plugged into a cat-V wire with a regular NIC...once the network accepts you as an "added host", you have access to whatever the other legit hosts do. No, your average user can't tell you "borrowed" their connection, but a decent admin will know in a heartbeat..it depends on what you're "jacking into", really...like I said, it's the same thing as plugging in a regular connection physically to the network..if they can monitor traffic through the routers, they'll see you...if not, they won't. If you do it in the right places, you can link into MASSIVE pipes via wireless...helps to have both a 2.4GHz and a 5GHz wirelss card, since 100mbaud wireless is on 2.4, while gigabit wireless and above requires 5GHz carriers...
November 23, 200321 yr a long ass time ago some fewl sat in the parking lot at Sun Microsystems and h4xed their LAN, pretty amusing shit the only thing that would prevent you from accessing their LAN would be if they used encryption and theres a setting for wireless routers that has a password that all nodes must use
November 23, 200321 yr Author the sysadmin goes outside the building and finds a group of geeks downloading pr0n on the company's fat pipe. Yes, I see it now. I saw a few sites with maps of certain cities and locations where one can access these networks, this seems weird to me because havn't the admins thought of this before? that their networks can easily be compromised?
November 23, 200321 yr I'm sure some of them are aware, techno...but how many IT guys with actual understanding of IT are employed in positions to DO anything about it? Half the IT guys I know who know their jobs are employed in $25-$40K a year positions, working as "techs" with EXTREMELY limited discressionary powers...they have to convince a boss who's 20 years older than they are, and vaguely afraid of his computer, that they are right, first, then convince the same idiot to grow the balls to approach HIS bosses, and convince them of the same issue...then he has to convince them that the issue is important enough to warrant spending an additional $100K or so on the department, that wasn't in the budget...when none of these management idiots quite understand what the issue is, to begin with... Thank god for bureaucratic bullshit..if it weren't for business bureaucracies run by tech-ignorant assholes with anal retentive reactions to anyone suggesting they spend money on something they don't fully understand, we'd not have exploitable weaknesses to play with <grin>
November 25, 200321 yr outside of bill gatses house is nice I would love to log into bill gate's fat pipe.
