[MLB-WIRELESS] Fwd: 3rd WWWD

[Ash Nallawalla]

(from alt.internet.wireless)

"Frank" <la at pasadena.net> wrote in message
news:<v626alod656353 at corp.supernews.com>...

It is my pleasure to announce that the third WorldWide WarDrive (WWWD)
will take place from 28 June 2003 - 5 July 2003.

The WorldWide WarDrive is an effort by security professionals and
hobbyists to generate awareness of the need by individual users and
companies to secure their access points. To help accomplish this, the
WorldWide WarDrive provides a statistical analysis of the many access
points that are currently deployed across the globe. In addition to this
statistical analysis, the WWWD provides FREE information on the steps
needed to improve the security posture of wireless networks.

The first WWWD identified nearly 10,000 access points This number more
than doubled for the second WWWD held only 6 weeks later to nearly
25,000. This is a testament to both the growing use of WiFi and the
concern by security professionals to ensure that these access points are
locked down.

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Due to the overwhelming popularity of the WWWD, it is no longer feasible
to have results emailed to WWWD staff. To that end an automated upload
process has been put in place. To aid the process of converting your
data for upload, the Church of WiFi has the following announcement:

The Church of WiFi (CoWF) presents Warglue.

For longer than time could tolerate, disciples of the Church of WiFi
have endured low SNR from
the Kismet and Netstumbler log file format differences. Thus, the
almighty SSID granted the CoWF with special abilities to understand and
manipulate wireless scanner log files. With these abilities Warglue was
created. Now, disciples of the Church of WiFi can convert between these
formats as easily as they receive 802.11b beacons. Following in the
example of the almighty SSID, the CoWF presents these three SSIDs for
your Rx pleasure:

SSID: warkizniz (WEP)
Info: Convert Kismet to NS1
SSID: warwis (no WEP)
Info: Convert Kismet to and from wi-scan
SSID: warscrub (no WEP)
Info: Splits out bad GPS coordinates from wi-scan

GPS coordinates for these SSIDs: http://www.ChurchOfWiFi.com/warglue/

Warglue represents the Church of WiFi and all that it is.

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It is also my pleasure to announce that the WWWD has teamed with DefCon
(www.defcon.org). At DefCon 11 (1-3 August 2003) I will deliver a
presentaion entitled "The WorldWide WarDrive: The Myths, The
Misconceptions, The Truth, The Future." During this presentation the
statistics from WWWD 3 will be released to the world for the first time.
It is our feeling that using this highly publicized event will help to
increase awareness of the need to secure access points.

Visit www.worldwidewardrive.org for more information on the WWWD in your
area or if you would like to organize a drive where you live,


--Roamer
roamer at worldwidewardrive.org

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