War Driving KL

Toxicle has a map of wi-fi hotspots in Penang (Penang is in oversea exclaimed Alphademon, too bad you only managed to get as far as Butterworth dude), complete with a Google Earth map.

I was in KLCC the other day for a video shooting with the fine folks from Reuters for a rockumentary, and in between shots and occasional twist-and-turns of my heads looking at pretty girls, I managed to collect a few statistics for you wifi hackers:

• There's over 38 AP (access point) accessible from Starbucks, KLCC


• 1/3 of these are using WEP encryption for authentication


• 1/3 of these are using some other form of authentication (MAC address authentication)


• 1/3 of these are open (excluding the free wifi spots)


• Only a handful of APs hide their ESSIDs

Associating with one telco's network was much fun. There tons of open ADSL modem with default usernames and passwords. A few years back, I even managed to discover printers, and cash registers. Yeah cash registers with IP addresses, no kidding. And if you're lucky and diligent enough, you might strike the cash machines.

Listening to: Pixies - Debaser