ˇ§War driving to Disney Worldˇ¨
Summer of 2004
War driving involves roaming around a neighborhood looking for the increasingly numerous ˇ§hot spotsˇ¨ where high-speed Internetˇ¦s access is free. What I found interesting was that the hacks were pretty basic and that most of the information on how to break into default systems, how to look for Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) being enabled and other wireless steps could be found in a Google search.
My brother Carlos a ˇ§full time computer geekˇ¨ and I had decided at the beginning of the summer that we were taking the family to Disney but I wasnˇ¦t going to take any downtime or a vacation per se. Instead, I would validate through ˇ§war driving around an area with a laptop computer and an 802.11 network card to identify the presence of wireless networks.ˇ¨ Let me preface, my brotherˇ¦s experience with wireless networks. He embraces new technologies and tries to understand how to make the workplace safe with security controls. My......
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