Wireless Warsitting (as opposed to wardriving)

[Leonard, Phil]

If you can find someone with Speakeasy DSL they actually encourage this sort of sharing.

Philip

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Leo J Mauler
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:53 AM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Wireless Warsitting (as opposed to wardriving)

Looking at the surging price of cable modem access (just got the bill),
I'm sitting here looking at the mini-coax connection on the Edimax
wireless NIC and thinking: what is the practical limit of the length of
the antenna coming out of the back of the wireless NIC?  Run it out to
the roof or attic (from the basement) with appropriate lightning surge
protection?

I'm also thinking back to the Cringeley column where he put passive
repeaters in *trees* to bounce a 802.11b signal around a mountain. 
Technically he was already paying for the signal, but he could have been
stealing Internet access from just about anyone with an unsecured WAP on
the other side of the mountain.

The ethical and philosophical problems aside, the technology exists for
everyone in the city without Internet access to share with just about
anyone else in the city with Internet access and an unsecured WAP.  With
wireless NICs down to $29, both PCI and PCMCIA, "free" Internet access is
just $29 away, and with a little work and a little more money you can
bounce signals in from unsecured WAPs which are miles away from your
home.  If someone is deliberately making their WAP unsecured to share it
with others, thats one less ethical question to worry about (other than
the fact that their T&C probably says "don't do this").

Kinda puts a new spin on the concept of "free Internet for a $99 setup
fee!"

Warsitting - trying to find unsecured WAPs while moving as little as
possible from your home.

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