> Your reply was way off kilter and utterly inane.

And your message is flamebait, using unnecessarily insulting phrases like this one.

> Wardriving, for the most part, wouldn't even exist
> if people took the proper precautions and secured
> their connections.

Every business I've worked at since the Airport was released has had open wireless APs as a public service. Wardrivers have no means of distinguishing among deliberately open and accidentally open APs, and neither do you. On what basis do you make this ridiculous assertion? When I go out looking for open APs, I'm doing so on the assumption that the ones that I find are left open for the same reason I leave mine open. Are you saying that wardrivers (i.e., people who map out open APs and publish them for community benefit) wouldn't do so if there were no accidentally open networks, just deliberately open ones?


> So here you have an FBI agent - making perfectly
> valid and timely statements regarding the practice
> of wardriving and the precautions businesses and
> individuals should take if they don't wish to
> share their bandwidth or be victimized because
> they didn't lock the door.

Or spreading alarmist FUD that causes people to equate wardriving and open APs with insecurity and hacking.

> Why the hell don't they go back to beating hippies
> and destroying anything that bends slightly left? ...
> since I'm sure that is what you see them as all about
> anyway.

It's an ad-hominem attack *and* it's a strawman. Troll.