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Wireless City Networks, Are there More?

· Networking · 8 posts · Jul 8, 2004 View original thread ↗

#1 Thu, 8 Jul 2004 - 15:05

With my iBook i'm having a lot of fun sitting in nice little benches aroun the city finding wireless networks. It's a challenge to actually find one with the internet wide open.

depending on where you are there are a lot of networks, or few of them for that matter. But do "all" networks really show up on your list, or are some hidden and u need to type an actual domain or IP in to actually find them?

If that is the case the manual way of typing in an address to find more networks, is there any software out there to actually find ALL of them, even the "hidden" ones?

#2 Thu, 8 Jul 2004 - 15:10

Quote:

Originally posted by StyleByte:
With my iBook i'm having a lot of fun sitting in nice little benches aroun the city finding wireless networks. It's a challenge to actually find one with the internet wide open.

depending on where you are there are a lot of networks, or few of them for that matter. But do "all" networks really show up on your list, or are some hidden and u need to type an actual domain or IP in to actually find them?

If that is the case the manual way of typing in an address to find more networks, is there any software out there to actually find ALL of them, even the "hidden" ones?

Typically, the ones you're finding are the ones that are broadcasting their SSID. There are plenty more that you don't see by default since they do not broadcast the SSID - As well as those that are encrypted in tunnels. As for tools out there that looks for them.. I'm sure there are some... but you my get a whole bunch of traffic to sort out.

#3 Thu, 8 Jul 2004 - 15:47

Quote:

Originally posted by StyleByte:
It's a challenge to actually find one with the internet wide open.

I wouldn't call it a challenge.
It's just a matter of time, and usually, not a lot of time.

So many people use their WiFi router's out of the box without setting any passwords, WEP, MAC access control etc...

-t

#4 Thu, 8 Jul 2004 - 15:59

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Originally posted by turtle777:
I wouldn't call it a challenge.
It's just a matter of time, and usually, not a lot of time.

So many people use their WiFi router's out of the box without setting any passwords, WEP, MAC access control etc...

-t

Exactly, many require no passwords, and then some work with "admin" or "password" as the password. I love people creativity...or lack thereoff.

#5 Thu, 8 Jul 2004 - 17:42

You have no idea how many networks I've found labelled "Linksys", "Netgear" and "default". Invariably, typing in http://192.168.0.1 will take you to its config page, and invariably, it's still using the default password. Occasionally, I've found "Apple Network 84357" (number is random).

People buy routers, connect them, and never set them up. If they only knew...

Tools of the trade: iStumbler and (if you know how to install it, and want to snoop a network) ethereal (must run as root).

tooki

#6 Thu, 8 Jul 2004 - 20:14

Quote:

Originally posted by tooki:

People buy routers, connect them, and never set them up. If they only knew...

tooki

isn't it great?!

#7 Thu, 8 Jul 2004 - 20:24

must see:

the first "the broken" episode

http://www.thebroken.org/

wap hacking in silicone valley

#8 Thu, 8 Jul 2004 - 20:28

macstumbler is what i use. and crackairport, i think i got both off of macupdate. cant seem to get crackair* to do anything though.