The Wardriver and the Cop
Jon Udell,
Dec 29, 2003
Cute story about obtaining wireless internet access by parking outside a school. For those haven't memorized the jargon, 'WEP' stands for 'Wired Equivalent Privacy', a security standard for wireless networks, and 'AP' stands for 'Access Point', a place where you can log on to the internet. 'Wardriving's what the author was doing - searching for free wireless internet access (the term derives from the movie 'Wargames' in which the characters 'war dialed', that is, dialed random numbers looking for modems they could hack). The presumption is that schools should consider locking their wireless internet networks, and I suppose most will over time. But wouldn't it be wonderful if you knew that you could always access the internet by parking near a school and using your wirless computer?
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