Wireless Bandit

Unconfirmed APs in MapPoint/Pocket Streets

Here are the current APs that are mapped but have yet to be confirmed with an address. They've been submitted by other "wireless bandits" reading this site. I want to get these posted ASAP, but need to confirm them by checking them out and recording address information and other sundry details we record for CAPs.

UAPs to confirm

Another map from NakedWireless.ca

This map is quite amazing. Looks like they just went east west on most streets, but not north/south (other than Yonge)... http://www.nakedwireless.ca/winudcol.htm

In case the site gets taken down here's a copy of the Flash file...

Yet another open APs site...

NakedWireless.ca

These are a dime a dozen it seems now and this one got some press in the Toronto Star. Take a look at the link of Toronto. It's clear that there are enough open, non-WEP points to have a fully accessible downtown, now it's up to us to actually make this map useful and create confirmed access points that we all can use.

Ummm... You probably wouldn't catch me dead in this...

wardriving is not a crime - apparel by blackwave

Right... In all its "Club Monaco"-style glory. If you have a wardriving fetish, feel free and buy away. I think I'll hold off for now...

Nothing to do with wireless...

Daring Fireball: Pepper Author Maarten Hekkelman

How's this for "Switch", Apple? You better start listening to your devout developers... This interview sure does put some holes in the Mac OS X bandwagon... Ouch...

The really amazing outcome out of this discussion is that there was no space on the Mac OS software market for more than 1 capable text editor. Seems hard to believe since there are tens of text editors for Windows seemingly competing and vying for dollars.

Too much time on their hands?

Wolrdwide Wardriving Results

This is a great effort, but I still contend that just finding and mapping a bunch of open APs is not the same as documenting and confirming each one like we do on Wirelessbandit...

There's war driving and then there is wireless banditry... The 2 are quite different from each other.

This will make it a bit harder for us...

Black Alchemy Enterprises

Creating fake Access Point beacon frames will definitely make it a bit harder to figure out the proper address. Of course if I ever saw hundreds or thousands of access points I would get a bit suspicious.

It is a novel idea and tells me people are thinking about the problems with wireless access all the time.

Need assistant wardrivers...

Hello folks... Well the site has been rolling around quite nicely now with over 8000 page views and over 3600 visits. You can see more stats if you hit the MORE... link...

This post is really a call out for people to help me confirm 20 or so access points around the city. I've mapped them into a MapPoint map and am waiting to confirm a physical location for each point and make sure it is useful. Any volunteers to help me out? I'd provide you with either the MapPoint map or just a few JPEGs of the areas I need reviewed. Pretty much every area of TO is covered going way West to the 427 area, way East to the Danforth, way South to Lakeshore and WAAAAY north to Vaughn, and many points in between... Let me know ok? wb1@wirelessbandit.com