I guess skyhook keeps nagging me a bit (maybe because it aligns with some wild ideas I posted somewhere on this forum before).

Update of the 'paid wardriving job at skyhook' url:
http://www.skyhookwireless.com/careers/drivers.php

I browsed around the wefi website and I can't really find any mention of "is this legal". This could be on purpose (trying to avoid the issue) or by accident (never thought about this). Some mention on the web of the money invested in this (trying to be the next big "social network&qu...

Skyhook got mention again the last few days because it is used by new features introduced by Apple in for example location services for the iPod and other Apple devices.

http://relations.ka2.de/2008/01/17/skyh ... ewspapers/ has a good writeup.

I was looking for extremely low-power PC hardware for a project for a weatherstation which will use solar or wind power and therefore has to work on very little power. I found the alix.1c board as an option, it can run on 12V / 5watt. But, this got me thinking: maybe this can be a very nice wardrivi...

I mostly run netstumbler on my laptop in my waterproof backpack as I bicycle around town. Ah, Seattle, one of the few places in the US where you can cycle without being a kid or a sportsfreak, just to get from A to B. Is everyone else wardriving? I'd love to hear what sort of hardware any warcyclis...

When I return home from wardriving, I would like Snort to recognize my home AP, turn off Kismet, connect to my AP and upload my logs, then turn off the machine. My bit on this solution: what I would try is a script which runs in the background (alongside gpsd and kismet_server) which monitors the p...

Looking at the stats, I see that everyone else has (like me) many networks discovered that we didn't have GPS info for. I always thought the 'total networks' was a count of all the different networks the wardriver has logged, and one (major) reason of networks logged but not seen as new ones is tha...

From an upload from yesterday: 114 new networks with gps locations, 10 new networks without gps locations. The laptop was on the table the whole time and never moved, the gps on the chair sometimes not having a 2d/3d fix. All those new networks are named AMD_IBSS, are indeed ad-hoc (IBSS) networks a...

Based on the pictures Petzl posted (thanks!) I got myself a secondhand nl2511 ext2 and modified it. Pcmcia card + antenna cable http://koos.idefix.net/tmp/wireless-antenna-work-1.jpg Detail of pcmcia card (glad I didn't continue my career in electronics) http://koos.idefix.net/tmp/wireless-antenna-w...

i added a simple text legend Nice, but when do I get a 'close view'? Even zoomed in completely I see blue dots. Thats because you are located outside the US. Ah. Too bad we in always-pay-for-map-data-land miss on this (it looks quite good in 'your' parts of the world). Maybe that openstreetmap proj...

i added a simple text legend

Nice, but when do I get a 'close view'? Even zoomed in completely I see blue dots.
Sample: https://wigle.net/gps/gps/Map/onlinemap ... 6748962402

and yes i close the screen when i drive ...

Looks cool. And you get some exercise too!

Is it possible to use one antenna with several radio cards? I figure it would need an amplifier to do so, otherwise the power would be reduced significantly. In theory it can be done. Another bit of theory is that as soon as one of the cards tries to transmit one packet, it will blow up the receive...

• Use Kismac / Kismet over NetStumbler.

This being a document for a wide audience, I would write it down more like "Using kismac/kismet (or other passive stumblers) over active stumblers (like netstumbler) is preferred because (set of very good reasons).

Found on Slashdot : Residential Wi-Fi Mapping Database Revealed pointing to an article: Enormous Database of Wifi Routers - Including Yours! - Revealed by AOL and Skyhook Announcement . This will probably cause a number of extra visitors to wigle as wigle is mentioned a few times in the comments on ...