Wireless Access Points
I am shocked and amazed. Remember how I told you there were like 80 WAPs on my way to work? Well, I did that by hand… polling for new networks and frantically typing them into Notepad. I was so naive.
Well, I downloaded and installed Network Stumbler and was in for a surprise. There are almost 300 WAPs found on my way home from work using this more “automated” means of collecting SSIDs.
- 180 of them are unprotected.
- 49 of them have no SSID.
- 29 of them have some kind of MAC-like string as the reported SSID.
- 60 were named linksys