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A look at Wardriving and the legalities and statistics of WiFi Home Networks

Posted by geeknews at 2:40 AM on September 13, 2004

I have my WiFi device sitting in a second floor office with MAC filtering and WEP enabled at the highest encryption level. I live in a residential area and from my second floor vantage point their are 11 active WiFi connections. Considering how far WiFi signal can travel everyone around on this block must have a WiFi device. What is amazing is that 9 of those are wide open. How can people be so ignorant. The statistics are amazing nation wide. Read on. [ZDNet]

Update: Fixed bad link

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  1. From Jasmeet at 6:02 am on September 14, 2004

    Why both? If you have MAC Filtering on, MAC’s that are not on the allowed list won’t even be able to log on to the access point.

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