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  • noun One who wardrives.

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Examples

  • Getting nasty letters from your ISP because of the ‘excessive usage’ of it by a wardriver/walker/chalker.

    Dear Mr Spano, re: Wi-Fi 2005

  • Getting nasty letters from your ISP because of the ‘excessive usage’ of it by a wardriver/walker/chalker.

    Dear Mr Spano, re: Wi-Fi 2005

  • Now, having been a rabid wardriver myself, I fully appreciate how important it is to give ne'er-do-wells in the immediate vicinity the chance to piggyback on our internet connection.

    dit-dit dit-dah dah-dit 2003

  • Now, having been a rabid wardriver myself, I fully appreciate how important it is to give ne'er-do-wells in the immediate vicinity the chance to piggyback on our internet connection.

    MMIV 2003

  • Since the service provider only sold service to the owner of the wifi network and not you - who is at fault, the owner who is sharing or you the wardriver?

    MakeUseOf.com 2010

  • That seems like an incredible stretch -- and even makes you wonder if the judge has children. so, if you live in Germany and have wireless, make sure it is damned secured. you can now be fined for something a wardriver does. nice.

    Techdirt 2010

  • A crazy black-hat wardriver might be able to drive around a city and own machine after machine, true.

    Wi-Fi Networking News 2009

  • Once an open wireless access point is found, the wardriver usually maps it, so at the end he would have a map of access points with their properties (SSID, WEP, MAC etc.).

    IT & Security Portal» IT-Observer 2009

  • The consequences of an unsecured hotspot (assuming it’s segregated from the machines used in “business operations”, as they should be) are: Gettings nasty letters from your ISP because of the ‘excessive usage’ of it by a wardriver/walker/chalker.

    Anti-Wi-Fi pol goes war driving 2005

  • The consequences of an unsecured hotspot assuming it’s segregated from the machines used in “business operations”, as they should be are: Gettings nasty letters from your ISP because of the ‘excessive usage’ of it by a wardriver/walker/chalker.

    Anti-Wi-Fi pol goes war driving 2005

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