[vox-tech] Re: sniffing wireless packets / war driving

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Have you tried NetStumbler.com?
Mark

Charles McLaughlin wrote:

>Sorry.... I thought that I noticed a basestation in infastructure mode.
>It was actually in ad-hoc mode, so maybe it is just someone else's laptop
>and not a basestation.
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>Charles
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>On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Charles McLaughlin wrote:
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>>Ok... I know what your thinking.  No, I'm not trying to crack someone's
>>WLAN.  I just moved and am just curious if any WLANs are near by.  At my
>>old apartment complex, I was able to use my neighbor's DSL connection from
>>his wireless basestation.  He didn't even enable WEP, so I couldn't help
>>but use his signal -- my laptop automatically recieved an IP address from
>>his basestation!
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>>Now... I've moved and am just curious what signals are out there.  I'm
>>using Kismet to sniff wireless packets.  I guess this is legal because I
>>haven't actually "circumvented" any encrypted packets. ;-)
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>>Using Kismet,  I can see an infastructure type signal, which I assume is
>>a neighbor's WLAN basestation.  I've let Kismet run for two days
>>and have sniffed almost 80,000 packets, but none of them have been encrypted.
>>When I look at the WLAN using a Winbloze box, I'm asked for a WEP key.
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>>My conclusion is that my neighbor's basestation is using WEP, but
>>s/he hasn't booted any wireless clients in the past two days.  Maybe that
>>is why none of the packets are encrypted?
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>>Maybe I should mention that I don't know much about networking "theory" --
>>I'm more of a hands-on type of guy, so I hope this post makes sense.
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>>Thanks for any insight,
>>Charles
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