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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@worldwidewardrive.org with MEDIA INQUIRY
in the subject line
Roamer
roamer@worldwidewardrive.org
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@worldwidewardrive.org with MEDIA INQUIRY
in the subject line
Roamer
roamer@worldwidewardrive.org
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