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War FLYING
I don't know how many of you subscribe to the vuln-dev listserv, but this came across it and I thought it was both amusing and interesting at the same time. What next, war submarining?
From: "Matthew F. Caldwell" <mattc@guarded.net>
While conducting an aerial (yes FLY-BY hacking) wireless audit for a client, the following information was gleaned. I thought the statistics were nice to give a good perspective in a metropolitan area. The reason for flying was, well RF at high frequencies "line of sight" rules. This flight was conducted around 3000ft MSL with a 15db Gain Antenna mounted on the wing , and a Lucent gold card.
382 Access Points total Detected
191 Access Points had default SSID's (linksys, default, etc.)
92 Access Points had WEP
To sum up only 24% had WEP and 50 percent had default SSID’s, which means they more than likely, have default passwords etc.
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