Re:Warchalking
by BigFnTelly on Sunday December 31, 2023 @04:06PM
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Wardriving is something necessary when you are too broke in America and every McBurgerHut has wifi. I wish I came across warchalks too. That would've been a great help
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wigle.net is really handy for finding open wifi networks when you want to work outside or use the internet without a data plan.
Agreed, although they seem on a mission to eliminate open wifi networks; the homepage has a prominent graph celebrating the growth over time of secured APs.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Re:Warchalking
by Dutchie987 on Sunday December 31, 2023 @04:48PM
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In Europe it's way cheaper to buy mobile data than paying for fuel to drive to an open access point...
War walking.
War transit riding
Re:Warchalking
by contravariant on Sunday December 31, 2023 @08:54PM
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I mean the trains have free wifi in the Netherlands, so that kind of works.
More expensive than just driving to your destination though.
Re:Warchalking
by cookiengineer on Sunday December 31, 2023 @09:14PM
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Don't forget: we have those crappy UPC routers everywhere. In every street, at least 5-10 are still upcgen affected and 1-3 usually never change the default passwords.
It gets worse once you dig deeper and find out how T-Online, vodafone and o2 hotspots work.
[1] for the curious: https://github.com/yolosec/upcgen