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- verb Present participle of
warchalk .
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Imagine how fantastically dull it would be to be a Fed cop assigned to tracking down email worms -- getting long briefings from nerds on DLLs, ploughing through obfuscated VB script, looking at inscrutable email headers -- Zzzzzz. Think about this for a sec: Fed cops want to believe that warchalking is going to lead to hacking and cracking and spamming and the whole quartet of the Horsemen of the Infocaplyse.
Boing Boing: September 29, 2002 - October 5, 2002 Archives 2002
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After helping to come up with the idea of "warchalking" -- marking wireless network availablity with chalk, using runes derived from old-time hobo-marks -- Matt got completely overwhelmed with publicity.
Boing Boing: August 18, 2002 - August 24, 2002 Archives 2002
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The drive-by hacking phenomenon -- dubbed "warchalking" because crooks who have succeeded mark buildings with a visible chalk sign to invite further attacks -- was tested by an English newspaper that, within minutes and undetected, broke into the private network used by the Cabinet Office and MPs ...
Boing Boing: August 25, 2002 - August 31, 2002 Archives 2002
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Radio) about the idea of warchalking to help identify resources inside an organization!
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Radio) about the idea of warchalking to help identify resources inside an organization!
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Radio) about the idea of warchalking to help identify resources inside an organization!
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Radio) about the idea of warchalking to help identify resources inside an organization!
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Radio) about the idea of warchalking to help identify resources inside an organization!
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Another created "Nomadic Markup Language," where artists, doctors, and civic leaders can join to develop a new graffiti language - a combination of warchalking and hobo signs - to give people vital information about the health and safety of neighborhoods and communities in the absence of reliable online information.
RJ Eskow: It's 2019 And Humanity's In Danger. Meet Me There. 2008
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Instead of detecting networks by stumbling over your laptop or relying on warchalking affecionados and wardrivers, WiFisense is a wearable scanner for wireless networks.
sionnach commented on the word warchalking
the practice of marking chalk symbols on sidewalks and other outdoor surfaces to indicate the location of unsecured wireless network connections
March 26, 2008
bilby commented on the word warchalking
What do the symbols look like?
March 26, 2008
sionnach commented on the word warchalking
They look like this:
hobo wifi signs
March 26, 2008
bilby commented on the word warchalking
Thanks for that, amazing stuff.
March 26, 2008
reesetee commented on the word warchalking
It is amazing. I've seen them around my area on occasion.
March 26, 2008