Wardriving setups
We do it here at work, but I’m really not happy with either of our setups. Just wondering and interested in comparing notes with others. We drive a large area and scan for un-authorized access points or mis-configured ones for our company.
Our first setup is:
Win XP
Netstumbler
Earthstumber (convert ns1 logs to google earth)
Google Earth
Proxim Ornico Gold b/g
3db omni ant
10db directional ant
Earthmate LT-20 GPS
Second setup is:
Redhat 9
Kismet
GPSD
some shitty scripts to convert/log kismet and make JPG’s of the drive
Proxim Ornico Gold b/g
3db omni ant
10db directional ant
Garmen Etrex Venture GPS
Kismet is obviously the best scanning tool out there, but crashes and is rubbish to work with and our scripts are crap. Not to mention GPSD is annoying and barely works. The windows setup works great but obviously has it’s shortcomings compared to the unix setup.
Any ideas?
What exactly is wardriving again? The practice of securing a wireless network, or something like that?
In my situation, like I explained, it is finding all known networks, ensuring they are compliant with security standards. Then locating any unknown/misconfigured networks and correcting/removing them.
it is driving around scanning for open wireless networks… exactly what he described in his original post.
And who are you that you have this authority?
I understand that now, but it seems such a breathtaking breach of privacy that I can’t imagine why they would do it, much less admit to it.
i’m not sure at all what the legitimacy is or why a business would be interested in doing it, unless he works for AT&T or a similar company who has to manage many WiFi hotspots and this is their simplest way of verifying everything.
In a company sense it is just like penetration testing, you have to test and (sometimes) attempt to break in to your own networks to find all the weaknesses you can, so you can harden it all up. What you can and can’t do all depend on your company and the directives that you’ve been given.
You can also wardrive around wherever you want just for fun (not in a company sense, in the more "whitehat" sense), and I believe it is legal as long as you are doing it passively and not attempting to break in to any networks. In this case you’d just be mapping out a wireless access point grid for your city/area/whatever.
As soon as you try and break in you are crossing the legality line.
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