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NetStumbler

NetStumbler. Alexandru Perea MSI2. About. NetStumbler is the best known Windows tool for finding open wireless access points. Can be found starting from windows 2000 up to windows xp . Wardriving. The act of locating and logging wireless access points while in motion.

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NetStumbler

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  1. NetStumbler AlexandruPerea MSI2

  2. About • NetStumbler is the best known Windows tool for finding open wireless access points. • Can be found starting from windows 2000 up to windows xp.

  3. Wardriving • The act of locating and logging wireless access points while in motion. • Peter M Shipley – invented WarDriving around 1999-2000 • Hollywood Roots: WarGames • Institute of electric and electronics engineers created standards for wireless networks.

  4. NetStumbler • Created by Marius Miller in 2004, last updated version 0.4.0 – April 1 2004 • Uses 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g standards • NetStumbler works by emiting a packet of data after it has detected a wireless network

  5. Features • Active scanning for wireless access points • GPS support • Logs access points to NS1(file format used by NetSumbler), extended and summary wi-scan and plain text.

  6. Pros and Cons • Pro • Easy and straight forward to use • Free, other software like inSSIDer have a 5 day trial period • Cons • Quite limited since it wasn’t enhanced since 2004 • Does not come with software to display WAPs in a map or similar representation and other software do have this feature

  7. NetStumbler and wardriving • Google’s Wi-Fi sniffing Street View code came from NetStumbler’screator • Because of its way of detecting WAPs it can be blocked by software like inSSIDer that captures the packet sent.

  8. Comparison • It uses a more active approach to finding wireless access points than passive sniffers such as Kismet or KisMAC. • Kismet passively sniffing networks. • KisMACcodebase entirely different. • Was arround before Kismet was ported to OS X.

  9. References • War, Peace, or Stalemate: Wargames, Wardialing, Wardriving, and the Emerging Market for Hacker Ethics http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=585867 • Wardriving is not a crime http://www.staticusers.net/wardrivingisnotacrime/ • Peter M. Shipley webpage - http://www.dis.org/shipley/ • NetStumbler forums - http://www.netstumbler.org/netstumbler/ • A guide to Wardriving and detecting wardrivershttps://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/wireless/guide-wardriving-detecting-wardrivers-174 • FCC report on Google Street-View Wi-fi data collection http://www.scribd.com/doc/91952307/FCC-report-on-Google-Street-View-Wi-Fi-data-collection • http://blog.seattlepi.com/techblog/2012/05/01/report-google%E2%80%99s-wi-fi-sniffing-street-view-code-came-from-netstumbler%E2%80%99s-creator/ • http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-04/google-s-wargaming-engineer-doe-at-privacy-probe-center.html • http://network-stumbler.software.informer.com/ • http://newplans.net/WiFi/NetStumbler/Installing.htm * • http://www.wikihow.com/War-Drive

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