[MLB-WIRELESS] Free WIFI IN VERMONT

Kim Hawtin kim.hawtin at adelaide.edu.au
Wed Dec 3 10:16:37 EST 2008


Peter Berrett wrote:
> I have been testing out this Free Wifi flaw on my old laptop. It is
> really quite fun the way the SSID can spread.
> 
> As an experiment I want to put something like '..Free Public
> WIFI..Here' (the .. Here is put in to make the SSID unique so that if I
> see it again I know where it came from.) in my old laptop, kick it into
> adhoc mode and go somewhere crowded where people have lots of laptops
> and see how well it spreads.
> 
> I'd do it at the airport but these days they are very security concious
> so its probbaly not a good idea to hang around there. Can anyone suggest
> a location where lots of people are likely to be logging into their
> laptops?
> 
> This could be fun seeing my SSID spread around the world.

At the state library across the road from my work you can see a number of strange
SSIDs pop up =) lots of adhoc nodes probing, etc

cheers,

Kim
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Operating Systems, Services and Operations
Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide
kim.hawtin at adelaide.edu.au



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