Open Wireless AP...find the owner?

[admin at kclinux.net]

Only way I could tell you is that I've seen a wardriving car hooked up
with some gadgets, and his laptop showed which direction the AP signal
is coming from, and how strong it is.  Not exactly sure how it was done
(lots of toys including a GPS, Windows XP laptop, antenna on the
top/back window, was hooked up).

Sorry I wasn't much of a help, but I can answer that it possible. :)

On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 23:48, Matt G wrote:
> So, I got my new wireless network setup today, and the first thing I did was
> enable wep, turn off broadcasting, and make sure it didn't accept ssid
> "any".  So, I'm fooling around with it, and it's working great.  I installed
> netstumbler just to make sure I couldn't find my ap like that.   Mine didn't
> show up, which is good, but I found 2 others.  One seems to be protected,
> but one of them is totally open.  I can get an ip and get online etc.
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> Is there any way to find out who they are??  I need to help this guy get his
> network buttoned down.  I'm getting full strength signals.  There are no
> shared drives that I can find, and no shared printers (so I can't leave a
> file note, or print a note.)   Anyone know any tricks?
> 
> Matt
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