WiFi "war flying"

http://www.tomshardware.com/column/20040430/index.html

A Cessna 172 and Piper Cherokee go on an aerial hunt for WiFi
access points over the L.A. basin. They find over 4500, and
and successfully run Netmeeting betewen the aircraft.

A Cessna 172 and Piper Cherokee go on an aerial hunt for WiFi
access points over the L.A. basin. They find over 4500, and
and successfully run Netmeeting betewen the aircraft.

Wonderful! Thank you.

What altitude?

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A Cessna 172 and Piper Cherokee go on an aerial hunt for WiFi
access points over the L.A. basin. They find over 4500, and
and successfully run Netmeeting betewen the aircraft.

Why?
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they're geeks.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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A Cessna 172 and Piper Cherokee go on an aerial hunt for WiFi
access points over the L.A. basin. They find over 4500, and
and successfully run Netmeeting betewen the aircraft.

Why?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Sat, 01 May 2004 12:19:54 GMT, Brad Z wrote:

they're geeks.

geeks hardly use Netmeeting ...

*ooops*


#m


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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A Cessna 172 and Piper Cherokee go on an aerial hunt for WiFi
access points over the L.A. basin. They find over 4500, and
and successfully run Netmeeting betewen the aircraft.

Why?


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"Brad Z" wrote in message news:KBMkc.3892$IG1.103939@attbi_s04...
they're geeks.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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A Cessna 172 and Piper Cherokee go on an aerial hunt for WiFi
access points over the L.A. basin. They find over 4500, and
and successfully run Netmeeting betewen the aircraft.

Why?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"



So they could argue about manly low wings vs. sissy high wings. Come on! :-)

-Rob

"Jay Honeck" writes:

A Cessna 172 and Piper Cherokee go on an aerial hunt for WiFi
access points over the L.A. basin. They find over 4500, and
and successfully run Netmeeting betewen the aircraft.

Why?

Because.

I tried using my iBook to access the Internet while flying, through a
Nokia 3600 phone (using Bluetooth between the computer and the phone,
and GPRS to access the Internet). Worked fine.

-jav

In article , Javier Henderson wrote:
I tried using my iBook to access the Internet while flying, through a
Nokia 3600 phone (using Bluetooth between the computer and the phone,
and GPRS to access the Internet). Worked fine.

Hmmm... in flight weather radar :-)

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On Sat, 01 May 2004 12:01:16 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

A Cessna 172 and Piper Cherokee go on an aerial hunt for WiFi
access points over the L.A. basin. They find over 4500, and
and successfully run Netmeeting betewen the aircraft.

Why?

Well, the Netmeeting point isn't relevant, but the 'warmarking'
certainly is. Basically, they found 4500 access points in a short
time, most of them without encryption enabled.

There are Wifi / GPS logging programs that will capture and then plot
location of Wifi access points. This info is then posted to various
websites which detail locations of Wifi networks.

Hackers can then go to the Wifi network (park their car outside) and
either get free internet access, OR try to hack into computers on the
network.

If you have Wifi at your home or small office, turn encryption on, and
change encryption keys frequently. It is not foolproof, but it does
make it more difficult to gain unauthorized network access.

-Nathan

Ross Oliver wrote:

http://www.tomshardware.com/column/20040430/index.html

A Cessna 172 and Piper Cherokee go on an aerial hunt for WiFi
access points over the L.A. basin. They find over 4500, and
and successfully run Netmeeting betewen the aircraft.

But how do they warchalk it? Signal smoke? ;-)

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