Driving home from Younge & Eglington. I went down Younge to Lakeshore, then took Lakeshore to Islington. In the course of that 50min drive here is what I found:
729 wi-fi networks
I captured 9684 packets
52% of the access points were secure
48% were wide open!!
Tools used: Kismet, and Ethereal on Knoppix 3.4 with my Linksys WPC55AG card.
The most memorable SSID names I saw were: Phatpipe @ Lakeshore and Bathurst (open network), and Fuck You (open network) @ Lakeshore and Royal York.
There were also an alarming amount of access points set to factory defaults.
It was a fun nerdy drive home.
729 wi-fi networks
I captured 9684 packets
52% of the access points were secure
48% were wide open!!
Tools used: Kismet, and Ethereal on Knoppix 3.4 with my Linksys WPC55AG card.
The most memorable SSID names I saw were: Phatpipe @ Lakeshore and Bathurst (open network), and Fuck You (open network) @ Lakeshore and Royal York.
There were also an alarming amount of access points set to factory defaults.
It was a fun nerdy drive home.


