wardriving

In my state (Oregon) legislation has deemed wardriving perfectly legal, stating that if the owner of the network leaves it wide open, then the public can't be held accountable if they connect to the network, since most programs connect to any available network automatically.

If anybody is serious about wardriving, the only way to go is load up Virtual PC and install Windows 2000 on it. Then download and install these programs:

NetStumbler: Wifi AP finder (PC version of MacStumbler)
Netbrute: Port scanner and NetBIOS collector
ShareScan: Port 139 browser, checks for remote files and indexs them and allows for file queuing and thread scanning
WinDHCP: Gives DHCP and IP lease information, allows quick release/renew

Have fun!

So i decieded to look into this whole " war driving " thing a lil more and what better way to do this than try it myself. so i downloaded "Kismac" grabbed the powerbook and took off for a lil drive and while on the way to school a 10 min trip i stumbled upon 26 wireless networks in not that big of a city 17 of which had no password or encription even some of the major banks had no encription on their wireless networks.
When i first came upon this subject i was very stand offish about it i still do feel that way, but like witeshark says " I kinda agree that open networks are fair game. " not that im going to make it my weekend but if i was stuck somewhere and needed net access and it was open..i think i might just take advantage of it.

btw if you are intrested in this i tried the macstumbler program as well and didnt think it was half as good as kismac. check it out if your intrested for those super wardrivers it also has a wep encription cracker with some serious cracking abilties it looks like, and also pulls up alot of info about the network include manufacture of the router and clients connected

kismac features do not work that well with extreme cards either :/

I see where KisMAC can be used to attack WPA encrypted networks... is THAT legal?!?!