Wardriving works
I'm staying in a cheap hotel that looks like it has exorbitant local call rates (they don't give the rates, but it's clear they aren't free), so I decided to drive around looking for some free connectivity on my way to dinner. Picked a busy residential street, and the first time I stopped I found three open access points, and no closed ones. If you are the one who owns the Linksys router I'm using, you bothered to put your name as the ID, but you didn't put on a password. If you did it out of generosity, thanks! If you did it out of ignorance, at least you have similar neighbors. It looks like you aren't using much of your bandwidth right now anyway, so I feel OK about grabbing mail and even posting to the blog...
Update: after dinner, I wanted to check mail again, so I went to a different part of the same neighborhood. Same results: three (differently-named) open access points, no closed ones. Thanks to someone else for the quick hit of bandwidth...
Posted by lookit at June 1, 2004 05:36 PM