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Wardriving in Paris

Posted by deepquest on February 9, 2004 – 4:01 pm

Sunday night wardriving was interesting, more results than I thought. About 50% of the networks scanned had no wep or mac addresses filter. I’m not only talking about home networks but most were corporate offices.
Wardriving on OS X is really easy just need a laptop, external antenna, a stumbler like kismac and a gps.

I got a Zyxel zyair b-101 card since french airport wireless card are still locked on few channels due to an old french regulation. Apple never updated the firmware of the cards. Zyair b-101 is a pcmcia card with 2 external sockets to plug antennas. For the Antenna 8dbI is quiet enought and provide a good range for scanning, I go a linksys ant24-0800. It’s of course an Omnidirectionnal antenna!

I was realy surprise that the Zyxel zyair b-101 card was recognized by OSX without any drivers! I launched kismac specified the right driver Prim2/Orinoco/Hermes Card. For the GPS [url=http://www.deluo.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=DE&Product_Code=GPSLD&Category_Code=] Deluo USB[/url] seems like working fine on OSX even Linux. Then scanned I found about 7 networks from my place, 2 only had wep enabled.

I was now time for a ride in the 8th Area. First reaction was : WOW. Testing a small block in the 8th gave me about 150 Access Points. More than 56% were open: no ACL, no WEP…

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  1. 1. Eric Said：
    February 10th, 2004 at 2:21 pm

    1/ For people who don’t know well Paris, the street on the back of the map is “Les Champs Elys?es”.

    2/ I think the french Airport card are not any more “locked”.
    I know the law changed, I know Apple update the firmware, I’m not sure it apply to all kind of Airport cards.

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