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Wardriving Cat Coco Brings Home Bad Neighborhood WiFi News

12
Aug
2014

A security researcher built a wardriving kit and attached it to the collar of a cat in order to collect WiFi data from the areas roamed by the feline; the details showed that eight wireless networks in the neighborhood were either open or had poor security protection.

Gene Bransfield, security researcher for Tenacity Solutions, used Coco, a Siamese cat belonging to his wifes grandmother, for the wardriving purposes.

Wardriving is basically searching for WiFi networks and collecting de…

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