Rummaging through some drawers I found a newspaper from 2002, where I was featured as being part in the first WorldWide Wardrive (WWWD) – the site is now defunct, but here is a link to Chris’ BlackHat presentation on it [PDF]. The article appeared in CiberPais, full version here the technology supplement of the largest newspaper in Spain, El Pais. I actually took the reporter, Merce Molist, on a quick wardrive…well, it was more of a warwalk, as we basically went around two blocks with an iPaq 3660 and an Orinoco Gold. She interviewed me with fairness and without all the crappy journalism that was flying around wardriving at the time. I have scanned the article to preserve it, as the paper was getting damaged by time (click for a larger picture):
After the wardrive was over, one of the participants, DigitalMDX, made a commemorative bronze coin for everyone who took part, and since I also found it in the same drawer, here it is (click for a larger picture):
The good ol’ days
I remember the period between 2000 and 2004 with particular fondness, as it was a thrilling experience to be around, physically or virtually in our #netstumbler IRC channel on EFNet, with people like Blackwave, Alakahil, McHale, Marius, Roamer, RenderMan, and others in the netstumbler.com forums, such as Thorn, beakmyn, wrzwaldo, Audit, and countless more. It almost melts my brain to think of the amount of stuff I learned from all these excellent guys – and makes me sad that some left for greener pastures and are no longer in touch.
One day I met someone with the nickname Dove in one of the wireless-related IRC channels. It happened to be Pete Shipley, considered the inventor of wardriving, and we had a few really good chats. In the end, he posted me some dis.org crew, aka DoC t-shirts and other cool stuff. I sent some wine, but don’t know if it ever reached him.
Have any good wardriving memories to share? Ready to come back to the light after years of hiding? Sound off in the comments!
Mother,
I’m still around but the #netstumbler IRC channel just turned into other things that I didn’t want to be part of. The forums are dead slow as you know so I moved over to something much bigger.