Have any of you ever been wardriving?

I recently did a bit of it while I was on leave up in Western NY at the end of April. Now, I come from basically the middle nowhere in the southern tier of Erie county, not too far from Amish country, so you can imagine how surprised I was to find well over 100 wireless networks in a town with an approximate population of 8,000.

I didn’t keep any detailed notes, but I know over half were unsecured, totally wide open. Now, I did not try to connect to any of them of course. I was just driving around with Netstumbler on and when I got home I just looked at the network list it generated.

The lesson here is configure your wireless routers people! I will be doing a writeup this week regarding basic implementation and setup of a wireless network.