Wardriving: Problemo o No Problemo?
Happy (belated) Cinco de Mayo! In honor of Mexico (whose El Tri I actually like a heck of a lot less than Les Bleus ), today's discussion of Guerra de Conduccíon has a Spanish language title. As noted by noted sarcastor Keith R. "The R Stands for Reassociation" Parsons , in some ways wardriving is a topic whose time has passed. We've known about it for years. Wardriving tells hackers where your network is. Most WiFi networks are encrypted. What else is there? Hackers can try to connect, but if you use a long WPA2 Personal passphrase , they won't be able to. Hackers can try to sniff, but if you're using WPA2 Enterprise, then decryption of data frames is impossible (as far as us non-NSA employees know). But imagine you are an NSA employee. Or the CEO of a noted defense contractor . Or holder of some other high-profile job where the nation's prosperity is dependent on your secrecy (like USC's head football coach). Then if a hack