Warchalking meets Glamourbombing

[azurelunatic]

Warchalking meets glamourbombing in one of those late-night flashes of wacked inspiration.

fishberryjam commented in response to my definition of "warchalking", I'd never thought about the anonymous glamourbombing possibilities presented by poorly secured computers on open wireless networks.

Okay, for everybody who I just lost... Wireless networking of computers is getting popular, and not everybody knows how to set up security on their wireless networks to make sure that someone just walking by with a wireless-enabled laptop can't just hook up to the network. So, a lot of people have networks that you can hook into just by walking up with a wireless-enabled laptop. Some of those same people don't know how to set up security on their computers so people can't just waltz in and poke through their computers, without even being in the same room.

If you've got the tools and the skills, you can leave magical messages and images in the unprotected computers of people with wireless networking.

*evil laughter*

Comments

[godai.livejournal.com]

open networks is how I get my internet at some of my friends houses. Though realize it is tantamount to digital tresspass. *shrug*

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[azurelunatic]

Yep.

Am very aware of territorial issues on computers, as am geek. :-P

Silly geek am I.

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[wibbble]

Although there are people who leave it open deliberately, and even warchalk their own connections.

When I set up for wireless, I'll likely leave it open, but behind a bandwidth-limiting squid proxy.