Wireless Bandit

119 Spadina - Spadina/Adelaide

Physical Landmark: 119 Spadina Ave
Major Intersection: Spadina and Adelaide
GPS Lat: 43.647000
GPS Lon: -79.395757

Network Name: default
WEP: No
Contributor: Bruce Lloyd
Comments: from www.openhotspots.net website

AmphetaDesk Link

Look below the "Syndicate this site (XML)" link... See that little XML "pill"? If you click on it and have AmphetaDesk installed you can easily add WB to your AmphetaDesk as an RSS feed. Nice and easy...

Notification and Comments now available!

WB has moved hosts and we now have 2 features:

- You can now comment on posts that have the Comment(x) link below them as well as adding a comment when looking at the full post.

- If you'd like to be notified by email of any new posts to WB, please email me

MapPoint and Pocket Streets Map of CAPs

I've created a MapPoint map of all CAPs known to date. I'll continue to update this map in case you would like to use this as a way to find the closest CAP. MS MapPoint 2002 File MS Pocket Streets File

Top 10 Ways to Fortify your WiFi Network

Consider the following options to spoil a hacker's
attempts to exploit holes in a wireless network...

1. Put the access point in the right place
2. Use MAC filtering to stop a hack
3. Manage your wireless network ID
4. WEP is great
5. But WEP is not fool proof
6. VPN is one of the best security mechanisms to have
7. Leverage existing RADIUS servers
8. Simplify your security: integrate wireless and wired
policies
9. Not all WLANs are created equal
10. Don't allow "Bob in marketing" to sprout a rogue
network

Click MORE... for details.

W_Dupont - S_Bathurst - W_Olive - S_Bathurst - W_Lakeshore - W_QEW - N_Kipling - W_Eglinton

Network Name	MAC Addr	Channel	Mode	Vendor	WEP Enabled
linksys	00:04:5A:F6:28:50	6	Managed	Linksys	No
linksys	00:04:5A:EE:60:4B	6	Managed	Linksys	No
olive	00:02:2D:07:96:94	1	Managed	Agere-Lucent	Yes
default	00:50:18:0C:EB:B4	6	Managed	Adv	No
jonnyport	00:02:2D:31:53:7B	1	Managed	Agere-Lucent	Yes
frognet	00:50:18:07:4A:7E	11	Managed	Adv	No
petercheney7	00:30:65:1D:F9:3A	1	Managed	Apple	No
seg5	00:04:E2:1B:73:54	10	Managed	unknown	Yes
linksys	00:04:5A:0F:2E:BA	6	Managed	Linksys	No
cafe	00:40:05:DE:23:CC	1	Managed	D-Link	No
linksys	00:04:5A:DB:8E:19	6	Managed	Linksys	No
X1PARB	00:60:1D:23:9E:76	3	Managed	Agere-Lucent	No
X1PARB	00:60:1D:F2:F4:71	3	Managed	Agere-Lucent	No
linksys	00:04:5A:EE:FB:7D	6	Managed	Linksys	No
linksys	00:04:5A:E8:15:9B	6	Managed	Linksys	No
linksys	00:06:25:59:8A:32	6	Managed	unknown	No
default	00:05:5D:EA:D2:64	6	Managed	unknown	Yes
3Com	00:04:76:A5:BC:D9	6	Managed	3Com	No
wired	00:40:96:2A:5A:1D	6	Managed	Cisco-Aironet	No
ROLEX	00:50:8B:99:0F:49	3	Managed	Compaq	Yes

Webbed, Wired and Worried (from NY Times)

Webbed, Wired and Worried

This is a very thought intriguing article. With so many open access points all around a major metropolitan city like Toronto, I shudder to think how electronic organization could be aided with this technology...

A really great way to read WB...

Ok so there is this little "Syndicate this site (XML)" tag at the bottom right, right? What does it do anyways? Well, for starters it is an encoded "view" of Wireless Bandit in something called RDF (Resource Description Framework).

The key to this whole technology is that you can subscribe to an RDF "news feed" of this site (and many others). By using a variety of RDF readers you can subscribe to any RDF news feed and display the content from the feed in a variety of ways. Click MORE... for some examples...

Not directly related to wireless...

But an excellent piece nontheless on the future of computers...

HOW THINGS WORK

Here's how WEP was broken

A paper describing how WEP was broken for under $100 by some summer interns at AT&T labs... Must've been quite a summer project. I wonder if they were hired to do something like this...

Summary: If you sniff about 5M-7M wireless packets on a WEP encrypted channel, you can deduce the WEP key quite easily. Look for AirSnort for the implementation of this attack.

Conclusion: WEP is broken, so use it at your own risk. MAC Address filtering is probably a better way to go, but even that is not terribly secure as many wireless cards can have their MAC address changed on demand.