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After many thoughts on actually going out on a wardrive, yesterday the decision was made: the wardrive must happen!

And so, Joffie and I went out on a little trip. Not knowing too much about Wi-Fi networks, we found out how shockingly easy it was to actually get online through somebody else's router/access point.

Just driving around showed us many, many, many points of interest and after parking the car somewhere, it usually took us less than a minute to completely take over a router (or more than one). We could just randomly park the car in the city, and get online in matter of seconds.

Why don't people enable WEP, disable DHCP, allow only certain MAC addresses to connect or at least change the default login/password combination of their routers? With a little help of Yahoo you can find lists containing routers' default passwords. Very handy, yet going for 'admin/admin' usually works out quite well too.

All in all, I found the journey quite interesting from a network point of view (learned a lot), yet also very scary. People really don't care about security, or so it seems. This must change... Then again, if -for some reason- my own internet connection fails, I have ample backups ;-)