Question

Explain the concepts of war driving and the pros and cons of broadcasting the wireless SSID.

Answer 1

Answer:

The act of finding and possibly breaching the connections to WLAN (such as WiFi ) while driving around in a vehicle to different places is known as War Driving aka Access Point Mapping.It is done mainly as a sport to demonstrate how easily a WLAN can be breached exploiting unsecure or open networks.

Below are the required equipment need by War driver to do war driving :-

1) Vehicle - To slowly move around places breaching open and unsecure networks
2)GPS - Records the position of the location where the automobile is moving
3)WiFi Antenna - used for scaling the range of WiFi detection of Laptop
4)Laptop - used for running War driving software in it communicating with WiFi signal
5)War driving software - used for reading location using GPS,signal strength from Antenna and type of encryption.


Below are the pros of broadcasting wireless SSID

1) Easy for the client WiFi devices to connect
2) User does not need to remember the network name or have to set manual connection
3)  Takes very little time for the devices to connect to its network once broadcasted.If automatic connection is enabled in users device it will take no time to automatically connect once network is aired.

Cons of Broadcasting wireless SSID

1) If network is open or not highly password protected it might be easily breached by hackers
2) Networks name is enough for hackers with right tools such as Kismet or Aircrack to breach unsecure network
3) Many devices does not support manual connection with network


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