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- noun The act of searching for a
Wi-Fi wireless network whiledriving amotor vehicle
Etymologies
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Examples
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The 35-year-old Capitol Hill man, the detective claimed, was using the black car in so-called "wardriving."
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First, the report makes it sound as if they are calling wardriving itself telecommunications theft.
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The NY Times reports according to the indictment, Gonzalez and his conspirators reviewed lists of Fortune 500 companies to decide which corporations to take aim at and visited their stores and used a technique called "wardriving" to monitor wireless networks.
Robert Siciliano: Big Time Identity Theft Hackers Indicted: Tips to Avoid Being a Victim 2009
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Locating insecure networks & advertising their locations has become a sport known as "wardriving".
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In the Boston and New York cases, Gonzalez and his co-conspirators broke into retail credit card payment systems through a series of sophisticated techniques, including "wardriving" and installation of sniffer programs to capture credit and debit card numbers used at retail stores, according to the indictments.
CSO 2010
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According to court documents related to his conviction in the Massachusetts and New York cases, Gonzalez and his co-conspirators broke into retail credit card payment systems through a series of sophisticated techniques, including "wardriving" and installation of sniffer programs to capture credit and debit card numbers used at the victim retail stores.
USDOJ: Justice News 2010
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The term "wardriving" sounds scary or even a bit dangerous.
MakeUseOf.com 2010
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In the Boston and New York cases, Gonzalez and his co-conspirators broke into retail credit card payment systems through a series of sophisticated techniques, including "wardriving" and installation of sniffer programs to capture credit and debit card numbers used at retail stores, according to the indictments.
CSO 2010
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In the Boston and New York cases, Gonzalez and his co-conspirators broke into retail credit card payment systems through a series of sophisticated techniques, including "wardriving" and installation of sniffer programs to capture credit and debit card numbers used at retail stores, according to the indictments.
CSO 2010
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In the Boston and New York cases, Gonzalez and his co-conspirators broke into retail credit card payment systems through a series of sophisticated techniques, including "wardriving" and installation of sniffer programs to capture credit and debit card numbers used at retail stores, according to the indictments.
CSO 2010
wcs commented on the word wardriving
The act of driving around an area with a wireless network detector and mapping software in order to create a map of wi-fi access points in that area.
July 28, 2009