PISA & WTIA jointly organized the "War Driving 2003 Hong Kong" in October 2003.
The results were benchmarked against that of another study conducted by PISA in 2002 to plot the profile of Hong Kong WLAN security development. The survey indicated that the number of WLAN implementation had skyrocketed in the past year, and yet there was only a slight improvement in the adoption of security strategies. The number of discovered APs had notably increased by 153% while the percentage of improved security on the whole was only a few percents.
The result of the survey also proved that it was feasible to war drive from distances in the order of kilometres. With a high gain antenna, 257 APs was discovered at the Victoria Peak. Some of the discovered APs were from the far eastern edge of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula. The possibility of war driving at such distance and height was out of the imagination of many people.
I. Tramway War Driving (5-Oct-2003)
II. Victoria Peak War Driving (12-Oct-2003)
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| Media Coverage |
ComputerWord Hong Kong (20-Jan-2004)
SCMP (02-Dec-2003) |
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The war driving was carried out in a non-intrusive manner. No unauthorized access, sniffing and jamming of traffic was attempted. PISA & WTIA's methodology in the war driving did not include a penetration test. We would warn that : |
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