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Warchalking
- BigFnTelly 3y agoWardriving 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
- gkbrk 3y agowigle.net is really handy for finding open wifi networks when you want to work outside or use the internet without a data plan.
- Dutchie987 3y agoIn Europe it's way cheaper to buy mobile data than paying for fuel to drive to an open access point...
- ses1984 3y agoWar walking.
- nvy 3y agoWar transit riding
- contravariant 3y agoI mean the trains have free wifi in the Netherlands, so that kind of works. More expensive than just driving to your destination though.
- cookiengineer 3y agoDon'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 https://github.com/yolosec/upcgen
- grubbs 3y agoI think this is still covered on the CEH exam. Or at least mentioned along with war dialing, wardiving, etc.
- jonathankoren 3y agoCEH exam?
- simonjgreen 3y agoCertified Ethical Hacker, a certification from ECC. https://www.eccouncil.org/train-certify/certified-ethical-hacker-ceh/ https://www.eccouncil.org/train-certify/certified-ethical-ha...
- anigbrowl 3y agoCan't think why, given that it was little more than a short lived LARP.
- mikecoles 3y agoThe entire security certification syllabus is this way.
- stevarino 3y agoYeah it was when I was going through a university class based on CEH about ten years ago. It includes war chalking and a bunch of other questionable subjects (BlackBerry Bluetooth stack attacks?). The whole experience left me feeling the certification is a waste of time unless an employer is asking for it (I'm on the swe side so certs are not applicable to me thankfully). When I looked into war chalking and how it's discussed, I found that most of the news at the time was based on an FBI notice to businesses, which was picked up by the media as the ridiculous story it was. I honestly doubt it actually happened, beyond the two or three Usenet posters that inspired the notice.
- Tepix 3y agoRelated: are there wifi password cracking apps for iOS and Android?
- halJordan 3y agoThere are couple of local terminal emulators in the App Store. I'm sure if you could source the binary you could run one of the linux tools. You could probably even build it from source if that's your jam.
- kushie 3y agodidn't know about this, installing a-shell now. thanks!
- hnbear 3y agoiSH is pretty neat too. It’s an Alpine container, you can apk add whatever you want.
- Nextgrid 3y agoVery unlikely you’d be able to run any of the cracking tools to actually crack a local wireless network since those require raw access to the wireless NIC to capture/transmit frames as it would require root. With rooted Android it might be possible if you can shut down anything else that might be accessing the NIC (Android’s NetworkManager equivalent) but otherwise you’re out of luck. Thankfully insecure/broken crypto WiFi is mostly a thing of the past.
- woodruffw 3y agoThe reference to WEP makes this sound pretty dated. Has anybody encountered these in the wild? (I went to a restaurant recently that had its WiFi profile on a QR code, which I found very convenient.)
- miiiiiike 3y agoThis isn’t something anyone used, it was a meme. See, in 2005 John Hodgeman (PC in the old Mac vs. PC Apple ads) published “The Areas of My Expertise” [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Areas_of_My_Expertise#The_700_Hoboes_Project_and_e-Hobo.com https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Areas_of_My_Expertise#Th...], including a description of hobo signs and 700 hobo names. Hodgeman was on The Daily Show and the hobo thing took off for a few minutes. I went to one of Hodgeman’s signings during that book tour. Jonathan Coulton was there during his his “Thing a Week” project and traditional Hot Fries and brandy (or bourbon?) were served. I bought a copy of the book and some hobo chalk for my brother. We were talking when Hodgeman went to sign my copy of the book. He asked my name and started to write “To Mike”.. I blurted out “No! It’s for my brother!” He looked up at me and let out a sigh before looking down and continuing without pause: “To Mike — If you wish you may give this to <brother’s name>”. Always wondered if he had that one chambered or if he came up with it on the spot. Either way, brilliant, and, 100% in character given the tone of the book.
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoI did a little 'war-driving", mostly just to feel part of the scene. At that point I'd never met anyone, knowingly, who used Linux. I was running Slackware, installed on 7 or 8 diskettes, on a Pentium-S ThinkPad. I only found the APs, never cracked them. I have once seen warchalk showing an open wifi point (in a city in the UK). This would be pre-2005 fwiw.
- dclowd9901 3y agoJudging by his podcast “Judge John Hodgman”, I’d say he’s an extremely clever individual. His shoot from the hip material is so clever sometimes it makes me wonder if it’s entirely scripted.
- dmd 3y agoThis reminded me of the morning my wife and I decided to semantically classify all of Hodgeman’s 700 Hoboes. https://dmd.3e.org/2006-07-22-the-semantics-of-hoboes/ https://dmd.3e.org/2006-07-22-the-semantics-of-hoboes/
- xtiansimon 3y ago
- AlbertCory 3y agoEverything old is new again: https://dustyoldthing.com/great-depression-hobo-code/ https://dustyoldthing.com/great-depression-hobo-code/
- dannyobrien 3y agoI was adjacent to the folks who came up with this (I think it was almost entirely Matt Jones' work creating that PDF). The symbols were intended to be useful, and there was a flurry of subsequent usage (including official labels at cafes, etc). It didn't have a huge amount of organic growth, but it was a form that journalists could write about, and it made more concretely explicable the somewhat trickier but more prevalent concept of wardriving. It may have been an artifact of the time, but it remains to me surprising how quickly and easily a timely and well-packaged idea can catch people's attention and propagate, even now. (Note that warchalking preceded John Hodgeman's book, but he too was playing off the background curiousity of hobo signs. There's no necessary origin point for combinations like this. You're just mixing and matching what's in the air.) Our same rough circle of people are why you talk of Betteridge's law, life-hacking, or even know about that Steve Balmer "Developers! Developers!" video. If it didn't come through that route, those concepts or presentations would almost emerged from some other corner of the online world. There was no ulterior motive, no intent to get rich or famous, just people playing as they do with what's interesting in the world around them, and the ideas they spark.
- xtiansimon 3y agoI remember reading about warchalking at the time. I thought it was the coolest idea. I had a Titanium MacBook and knew the difficulty for finding WiFi. You could find open routers at that time. I lived in the suburbs, but I imagined it would be cool to try in the city. I was socializing in the Burning Man community then, and my friends and I were drawn to hacking ideas like this.
- xwowsersx 3y agoThis seems like an unusually thinly hyperlinked Wikipedia article, no? Who is Matt Jones, for example?
- eternityforest 3y agoWhat should one chalk for a Meshtastic node?