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  • verb Present participle of warchalk.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Radio) about the idea of warchalking to help identify resources inside an organization!

    Wi-Fi Networking News 2009

  • Radio) about the idea of warchalking to help identify resources inside an organization!

    Wi-Fi Networking News 2009

  • Radio) about the idea of warchalking to help identify resources inside an organization!

    Wi-Fi Networking News 2009

  • Radio) about the idea of warchalking to help identify resources inside an organization!

    Wi-Fi Networking News 2009

  • Radio) about the idea of warchalking to help identify resources inside an organization!

    Wi-Fi Networking News 2009

  • 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

  • Instead of detecting networks by stumbling over your laptop or relying on warchalking affecionados and wardrivers, WiFisense is a wearable scanner for wireless networks.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Wearable Wireless Detector 2003

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  • the practice of marking chalk symbols on sidewalks and other outdoor surfaces to indicate the location of unsecured wireless network connections

    March 26, 2008

  • What do the symbols look like?

    March 26, 2008

  • They look like this:

    hobo wifi signs

    March 26, 2008

  • Thanks for that, amazing stuff.

    March 26, 2008

  • It is amazing. I've seen them around my area on occasion.

    March 26, 2008