AlkalineArmy
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Greenfield, IN
| The Legality of Wardriving
As far as I know, no one in the US has been charged with a crime just for wardriving and/or accessing open (unsecured) hot spots. However, if you're paranoid, you can do what I do: Disable the TCP/IP stack bound to your 802.11 adapter before you go out. This will make it so you're in "passive" mode so to speak. Your wireless card will not try to poll the AP's for an IP, therefore you won't inadvertently connect to every hotspot you come across. |
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Nerdtalker
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Tucson, AZ
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| I doubt your generic city cop would even be able to tell whether someone is wardriving or not. Obviously if they are stopped in front of somebody's house with a huge dish mounted on their car's hood, it's going to be pretty obvious, but if you're just casually driving by, its going to be much harder to detect.
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Rhobite
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For the really paranoid: This doesn't put it in passive mode, NetStumbler still transmits. It sends a packet that requests a broadcast from any nearby APs. But you're right that disbling TCP/IP will prevent you from grabbing an IP address.
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