My first Wardrive

08.23.04 - 07:16pm
mood: Nerdy
music playing: Mos Def & Prefuse 73 - Our Solstice Walk
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.