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drnazo · 07-29-2002

at first this news pissed me off. then I realized that this really won't work very well. after all, it's said in the article that it's purpose is not to set up hackers for prosecution. while this sounds warm and fuzzy, I believe that there is a level of threat to those who get on the network.

One bit of information that will be gathered is the MAC address. We know that this info really doesn't tell them much as most have changed their MAC address to something like "02-0c-de-ad-be-ef"

The other thing that might be gathered is arbitrary names such as NetBIOS names. Pretty vague.

Yet another thing that will be a problem is the fact that they don't have internet access right now. There aren't too many wardrivers that will sit on an access point without internet access for too long before moving on to a more prosperous AP.

The other thing is that they mention "Determining Intent" as a challenge. This seems quite a large challenge.

The other thing is finding you if you are on their network. In the article it says that this guy has "two omni directional high-gain antennas for added reach to the nearby streets and alleys." If the wardriver has some sort of antenna of his own, this increases the distance between him and the AP which then makes it harder to find the wardriver.

I'm interested as to what the results are of this experiment though.

07-29-2002	#3 (permalink)
drnazo I'm special Join Date: May 2002 Location: CO / Springs Posts: 29	at first this news pissed me off. then I realized that this really won't work very well. after all, it's said in the article that it's purpose is not to set up hackers for prosecution. while this sounds warm and fuzzy, I believe that there is a level of threat to those who get on the network. One bit of information that will be gathered is the MAC address. We know that this info really doesn't tell them much as most have changed their MAC address to something like "02-0c-de-ad-be-ef" The other thing that might be gathered is arbitrary names such as NetBIOS names. Pretty vague. Yet another thing that will be a problem is the fact that they don't have internet access right now. There aren't too many wardrivers that will sit on an access point without internet access for too long before moving on to a more prosperous AP. The other thing is that they mention "Determining Intent" as a challenge. This seems quite a large challenge. The other thing is finding you if you are on their network. In the article it says that this guy has "two omni directional high-gain antennas for added reach to the nearby streets and alleys." If the wardriver has some sort of antenna of his own, this increases the distance between him and the AP which then makes it harder to find the wardriver. I'm interested as to what the results are of this experiment though.