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Airtouch looking up:
Wi-Fi security expert Umut Bitlisli scans the city's skyline for stray
signals.
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Barron's interview, April 28, 2003
"War-Driving": the New Way to Snoop
Cruising lower Manhattan for an hour in March,
we found 622 Wi-Fi networks. And two-thirds were not secured against
potential intruders, like us...
...The first customer for his kits was the Defense Department. Others
include the Sandia weapons lab in New Mexico and the Secret Service.
The antenna inside most Wi-Fi cards works within a few hundred feet
of the base-station "access point," but Bitlisli's antenna
picked up networks across the Hudson River...
--Bill Alpert, Barron's
click for the 2 part video
and full story Parts I&II
Special Report: Wardriving Computer Hackers
What is Wardriving?
...hacking methods have even caught the eye of the
U.S. Office of Homeland Security. Terrorists could use war driving techniques
to launch cyber attacks from someone else's computer, without a trace.
News 12 Long Island and Airtouch Security Systems join forces to discuss
and demonstrate wardriving in this two part
Focus12 news report.
--Andrew Ehinger, News 12
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Airtouch Networks interviewed by Computerworld
A Chester, N.J.-based start-up has introduced an
all-in-one war-driving kit designed to help even the technology-challenged
sniff wireless LANs. Airtouch Networks Inc. has developed war-driving
kits that make it easy for inexperienced "sniffers," or even companies,
to look for wireless networks...
--Bob Brewin, Computerworld
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Airtouch Networks Wardriving Kits Reviewed on 802.11Planet
We started by driving through the commercial areas
around my office and were really amazed by the number of wireless LANs
we found in retail stores, office complexes, schools and hotels.
--Jim Geier, 802.11planet.com
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