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War Driving: Public Domain?
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With the rise of WiFi technology, the act of "war driving" has
become more and more common; both with hackers and not. While we 
as hackers know that Wifi itself is _extremely_ insecure, most home
and office networks don't even use basic security measures like
passwords and encryption. This makes it easy for anyone-
no longer just the "elite"- to go War Driving. Many TV networks
and news services have done specials on it (PBS had it on the
Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and local TV stations in San Diego had
it on primetime), and it's really only a matter of time before Wifi
will be faced with the dillema of how to make it more secure without
hassling the user... because the End User is not a person you'd
want to piss off (it's kind of how money is made). There are a few
solutions to this. They could make it more secure and deal with it,
or they could _not_ make it more secure, and leave the user hanging
when their bandwidth is sucked up by a guy with a laptop sitting in
his car in your driveway.

Some people have seen Wifi as an oppurtunity to "stick it to the man",
and his ISP too. For example, one man in Palo Alto has created the
'Palo Alto FreeNet', or free internet for anyone within a certain square
mileage of him. He bought a professional radio antenna and plugged his
wifi on. This is revolutional along the lines of Napster. Should the
Internet be free? I think so, but I think we'd have a hard time convincing
AOL that.

This creates many possibilities, but what does it have to do with War Driving?
Well, alot. Maybe soon, you won't have to.

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