[wplug] Wi-Fi Mapping in the Press

[Patrick Wagstrom]

Mac addresses?  Why?  It's amazing how many people aren't aware about
the following simple command:

ifconfig eth0 hw ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

lets you dynamically change your MAC address on your card.  I'll leave
it as an exercise for the interested reader to determine how to use
airsnort to break a WEP key and then use kismet to get MAC addresses of
a network and then connect to any "secure" network.

--Patrick

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 11:41 -0800, Michael P. O Connor wrote:
> I would say the cost is more then just bandwidth, it would be legel
> costs, how will a bussness respond when the polic come asking questions
> about the illegel activitys that has taken place on thier network. 
> Right now the easiest way to track who did what is the Mac address, so
> eather the company will have to track those by having the users register
> (more cost) or should we have a national database of Mac address for all
> wireless cards?  If I was a bussness I would not want to face those
> costs.  Time, Resources, Money, and Human.