WorldWide WarDrive 4 Announced

WorldWide WarDrive Announced

Announcing the Fourth WorldWide WarDrive (WWWD)

12-19 June, 2004

The WorldWide WarDrive is an effort by security professionals and
hobbyists to generate awareness of the need by
individual users and companies to secure their access points. The goal of
the WorldWide WarDrive (or WWWD) is to
provide a statistical analysis of the many access points that are
currently deployed.

We feel that many end users are not aware that the factory or "default"
settings on Access Points do not take
any security measures into account. By providing these statistics we hope
that end users will become aware of
the need to take simple measures to secure their access points.

The WWWD provides a snapshot of the security posture of currently deployed
wireless access points throughout the
world. During the Third WorldWide WarDrive, which took place in July
2003, over 88,000 unique access points
were discovered worldwide. The statistics compiled for the WWWD have
become the defacto standard for statistics
used by many media outlets and wireless security vendors to further
generate public awareness of wireless security
issues.

The Fourth WorldWide WarDrive will take place 12-19 June 2004. The
WorldWide WarDrive has teamed with the
Wireless Geographic Logging Engine (WiGLE www.wigle.net) to provide real
time maps and statistics as data from
each area is uploaded. This is a departure from past events where
statistics and maps were compiled at the
conclusion of the week long WWWD.

Also in conjunction with the announcement of the Fourth WorldWide
WarDrive, the Church Of WiFi is proud to announce that an updated version
of WarKizNiz is available at
www.michiganwireless.org/tools/WarKizNiz/
WarKizNiz accepts input from Kismet log files and converts them
into NetStumbler .ns1 format.