I’m making a note here, huge success. Yesterday I did my first full-fledged wardrive. The other runs were just tests to see if everything, but this for sure is the real thing. I started by going to school with it scanning, then turned it off, then returned to scanning once I left my girlfriend’s house. I must say, everything was epic.
I went around on my way home after filling up ($3.02 a gallon? !@#$% YES), and decided that I should check out a few neighborhoods on the way. So I checked out my grandma’s neighborhood a bit, looked at a portion of the neighborhood above Arroyo Vista Elementary, then went home. Total body network count? 513. As they used to say on good old MacAddict, UN FREAKIN’ BELIEVEABLE. Estimated driving time? 40 minutes. I’ve got the map here.
Now, may I direct your attention to WeFi. I’m going to work on the honor system with this one and tell you about their contest. It’s to see who can get the most number of networks. The prizes include your choice of an iPod touch, a Wii, or a $300 Amex card. Simply put, I don’t know how well known this WeFi service is, but judging from the current scoreboard, there isn’t too much competition. I may be completely wrong, and everyone is doing what I’m doing and waiting towards the final days to make a submission, but seriously, if nobody big knows about this contest, and I can get 500-1,000 networks an hour, there is a very real reality that I could win this. I’m already 200 networks over the leader right now, and that leader is doing the WeFi portion of the contest (There’s two contests, one for WeFi, one using NetStumbler or Kismet logs, which thankfully, KisMAC exports to). Let’s hope nobody knows about this and I can make a silent killing.
