Wardriving is an activity consisting of driving around with a laptop in one's vehicle, scanning for Wi-Fi wireless networks.

Some people think war driving is illegal. Actually accessing someone's network is illegal, but detecting the network is not.
> This is unverified and AFAIK untested in Australian courts - can someone verify this? -- TysonClugg.
Mmm, that wasn't the best analogy really, now reading over it. *tired yawn*, perhaps it's time to formulate another email to our mate Gary at the ACA -- [gummAY]

### Index ###

!! Software
!!! Windows

* (http://www.netstumbler.com/ NetStumbler) 
** allows you to detect Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) using 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g
** Last update: Wed 21 Apr 2004
* (http://www.wildpackets.com/products/airopeek Airopeek)
** (Commercial) has a limited demo. a comprehensive packet analyzer for IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, is designed to identify and solve wireless network anomalies. 
* (http://www.bretmounet.com/ApSniff/ APsniff)
** Prism2
** missing? 05/2004
* (http://www.stolenshoes.net/sniph/aerosol.html Aerosol)
** A great little prog. Designed as a wardriving utility for Windows. Supports PCMCIA and USB hybrid PRISM2 Adapters, and WaveLAN/Orinoco.


!!! Mac

* (http://www.macstumbler.com/ MacStumbler)
**  a utility to display information about nearby 802.11b and 802.11g wireless access points. Site
** Last update: 4/12/04
* (http://www.binaervarianz.de/projekte/programmieren/kismac/ KisMac)
** a free stumbler application for MacOS X, that puts your card into the monitor mode. Unlike most other applications for OS X we are completely invisible and send no probe requests.
** Last Update: 30-04-2004

!!! Linux

* (http://gravitino.net/~bind/code/airosniff/ Airo Sniff)
**  missing? 05/2004
* (http://www.bastard.net/~kos/wifi/ APScan)
** a tool to use when looking to discover access points and save captured traffic.
** Last update: 23rd-Mar-2002
* (http://students.washington.edu/rlotz/swn/iw-scan/ IWScan)
**  source only
** Last update: 27-Sep-2001 
* (http://www.kismetwireless.net/ Kismet)
** [Kismet]
** an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system.
** Last update: 07-Apr-2004 
* (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wavelan-tools/ PerlScan)
** Last update: September 25, 2001
* (http://sourceforge.net/projects/prismstumbler PrismStumbler)
** a wireless LAN (WLAN) discovery tool which scans for beaconframes from accesspoints.
** Last update: March 10, 2004
* (http://www.thc.org/releases.php?q=wardrive THCwardrive)
**  a tool for mapping your city for wavelan networks with a GPS device while you are driving...
** Last update: 2001-10-27 
* (http://www.jm-music.de/projects.html Wavemon)
** [Wavemon]
** an ncurses-based monitoring application for wireless network devices (displays information like device configuration, encryption and power management parameters and network)
** Last updated: 2002/12/21
* (http://www.wellenreiter.net/ WaveRider)
** a wireless network discovery and auditing tool. Prism2, Lucent, and Cisco based cards are supported.
** Last updated: 2003-02-01 
* (http://wepcrack.sourceforge.net/ WepCrack)
**  an open source tool for breaking 802.11 WEP secret keys.
**  Last updated: August 21, 2001


!!! BSD
* (http://www.dachb0den.com/projects/bsd-airtools.html Airtools)
** a package that provides a complete toolset for wireless 802.11b auditing.


!!! On the down side
* (http://www.securitypipeline.com/network/26806438 Men sentenced to jail for wardriving)
** This is not in au, but....