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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 -- gummAYSoftware
Windows
NetStumbler - allows you to detect Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) using 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g
- Last update: Wed 21 Apr 2004
- 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.
- APsniff
- Prism2
- missing? 05/2004
- Aerosol
- A great little prog. Designed as a wardriving utility for Windows. Supports PCMCIA and USB hybrid PRISM2 Adapters, and WaveLAN/Orinoco.
Mac
- MacStumbler
- a utility to display information about nearby 802.11b and 802.11g wireless access points. Site
- Last update: 4/12/04
- 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
- Airo Sniff
- missing? 05/2004
- APScan
- a tool to use when looking to discover access points and save captured traffic.
- Last update: 23rd-Mar-2002
- IWScan
- source only
- Last update: 27-Sep-2001
- Kismet
- Kismet
- an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system.
- Last update: 07-Apr-2004
- PerlScan
- Last update: September 25, 2001
- PrismStumbler
- a wireless LAN (WLAN) discovery tool which scans for beaconframes from accesspoints.
- Last update: March 10, 2004
- THCwardrive
- a tool for mapping your city for wavelan networks with a GPS device while you are driving...
- Last update: 2001-10-27
- 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
- WaveRider
- a wireless network discovery and auditing tool. Prism2, Lucent, and Cisco based cards are supported.
- Last updated: 2003-02-01
- WepCrack
- an open source tool for breaking 802.11 WEP secret keys.
- Last updated: August 21, 2001
BSD
- Airtools
- a package that provides a complete toolset for wireless 802.11b auditing.
On the down side
- Men sentenced to jail for wardriving
- This is not in au, but....
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