[ISN] WorldWide WarDrive 4 Announced

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Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 04:22:19 PST

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    Announcing the Fourth WorldWide WarDrive (WWWD)
    
    12-19 June, 2004
    
    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. The goal of
    the WorldWide WarDrive (or WWWD) is to
    provide a statistical analysis of the many access points that are
    currently deployed.
    
    We feel that many end users are not aware that the factory or "default"
    settings on Access Points do not take
    any security measures into account. By providing these statistics we hope
    that end users will become aware of
    the need to take simple measures to secure their access points.
    
    The WWWD provides a snapshot of the security posture of currently deployed
    wireless access points throughout the
    world.  During the Third WorldWide WarDrive, which took place in July
    2003, over 88,000 unique access points
    were discovered worldwide.  The statistics compiled for the WWWD have
    become the defacto standard for statistics
    used by many media outlets and wireless security vendors to further
    generate public awareness of wireless security
    issues.
    
    The Fourth WorldWide WarDrive will take place 12-19 June 2004.  The
    WorldWide WarDrive has teamed with the
    Wireless Geographic Logging Engine (WiGLE www.wigle.net) to provide real
    time maps and statistics as data from
    each area is uploaded.  This is a departure from past events where
    statistics and maps were compiled at the
    conclusion of the week long WWWD.
    
    Also in conjunction with the announcement of the Fourth WorldWide
    WarDrive, the Church Of WiFi is proud to announce that an updated version
    of WarKizNiz is available at
    www.michiganwireless.org/tools/WarKizNiz/
    WarKizNiz accepts input from Kismet log files and converts them
    into NetStumbler .ns1 format.
    
    Coordination of drives throughout the world is done at the WorldWide
    WarDrive Forums located at
    http://www.c2security.org/forums/wwwd/
    
    As in the past, discussions pertaining to the WWWD can also be conducted
    on the WarDriving mailing list
    (http://mailsrv.dis.org/mailman/listinfo/wardriving).
    
    New for WWWD4 is the creation of a mailing list devoted solely to wireless
    security issues.  To join this list,
    hosted by Michigan Wireless go to
    http://www.michiganwireless.org/lists.html.
    
    For general information about the WorldWide WarDrive visit the WorldWide
    WarDrive website at
    www.worldwidewardrive.org or the WWWD Frequently Asked Questions document
    at
    http://www.worldwidewardrive.org/faq.html.
    
    Media persons interested in articles or interviews should email
    media@private with MEDIA INQUIRY
    in the subject line.
    
    
    Roamer
    roamer@private
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