[MLB-WIRELESS] Wireless vunerabilities?

[Adam Burns]

Pete Shipley & sec et al. were @ HAL2001, though I found Pete's talk a little 
misleading. At times he was talking about *just* mapping (or detecting 
networks), others he was talking about exploring the network at an IP level. 
Sometimes he was talking about unamplified links, then mentioned a 20 mile 
P2P link (which is improbable, even with 2xhighly directional antennae 
without an amp). All very interesting, I just wish he would be more careful 
in qualifying what was used & what was done in each example. I also think he 
pitched his talk too low for the audience. There were approximately about 700 
wireless cards & 10 AP's in the field, kept separate from the wired network 
of over 24Km of cat 5. I joined a wlan swat team for a while, trying to 
detect rogue AP's directly connected to the wired network in order to move 
them over to the separate wlan vlan.

free2air's war pedallaz have mapped over 40 networks in London by bicycle 
(including unencrypted blue chip corporate networks), and about 20 in 
Amsterdam (by boat ;-).

cheers,

.vortex


On Tuesday 28 August 2001 10:12 am, Jack Banh wrote:
> Some attendees of HAL2001 describe of drive-by hacking where they drive
> 'round in cities like London, Berlin and San Fransisco armed with laptops
> and wlan cards.
>
> Supposedly they found all these a whole bunch of insecure wlans and at
> least 5 vunerable hospitals in Berlin.
>
> (My first post in ages, and it's off topic. Bah.)

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