  pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | Perfectly Plausable Reason Warchalking was named one of the "100 most significant ideas of the year 2002" by the New York Times Magazine.
Maybe it was because Jayson Blair did the write up for this? 
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Warchalking was named one of the "100 most significant ideas of the year 2002" by the New York Times Magazine.
Maybe it was because Jayson Blair did the write up for this?
Nice! Couldn't have said it better myself. | |
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|  oliphant5Got Identity?Premium
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Corona, CA | Way funny! | |
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| | | Why warchalk? Who cares. Scribble on my property and I will kick your a**. Like I care where WIFI is. If I am wanting to use it, guess what...chances are I am running Kismet and finding the same network you are pointing me to.
Warchalking is for kids. No one cares except the kids themselves. Years ago, we called it "tagging". Now its warchalking, whatever. Stupid then, stupid now and stupid tomorrow. Save your chalk... | |
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join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL | FBI Why would the FBI give a crap if companies are advertising that their business allows wi-fi for their customers.
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|  kapilThe Kapil
join:2000-04-26
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|  Re: FBI
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| |  SmokeyI'd rather be skiingPremium
join:2003-05-20
Wild West | Re: FBI I can see it now!! "Baghdad Bob's, your full service WI-Fi stop to the weapons of mass destruction." | |
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|  scottaxPremium
join:2000-12-06
Jacksonville, FL | said by Maxo:
Why would the FBI give a crap if companies are advertising that their business allows wi-fi for their customers.
What the FBI is warning businesses about is that their WI-FI Network maybe compromised if you show up to work one day and see the symbols outside your office...They could care less about businesses that are actually providing this as a free service.
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kapilThe Kapil
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| DUMB!
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| pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | Re: DUMB! said by kapil:
This is the dumbest idea in the world. When was the last time you grabbed your laptop and went for a 10 mile walk?
For some geeks, it might finally pull them out of their mom's basements... and you have to agree that all that exercise is a good thing, right?
said by kapil:
...and you can't really drive 1 mile per hour while trying to avoid collecting pedestrian killing points AND trying to find the damned chalk marks at the same time.
We're supposed to avoid the pedestrians?
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join:2000-10-28 | Re: DUMB! Exactly. I never quite got the point of the low-tech warchalking idea. It always sounded a little bit like a gag. (What's the least efficient way to find wireless access? Let's use dissolvable chalk and have our users walk around aimlessly hoping to notice it.)
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join:2001-10-20
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| I just saw this Warchalking mark yesterday... I think it has something to do with FTTH in 10 years...
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join:2002-03-29
Atlanta, GA | WHAT are you TALKING about? Look.... I warchalk all the time. It's holding its popularity and growing if anything. People still do it. I run around with a pocketpc and do it. | |
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| | | Re: WHAT are you TALKING about? Better e-mail the guy and grab your dollar then.... | |
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Atlanta, GA | Re: WHAT are you TALKING about? Hummm..thanks! | |
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|  tcp1Premium
join:2000-04-17
Herndon, VA
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| Yes but did you do this before, or after you read about it on slashdot?
That's intended to be a slight dig, sorry.
Maybe it's all the rage in Chattanooga. I don't know. Never seen it in NY, DC, or Denver, where I've been hanging out the last 2 years.
I have seen "Free Kevin", however; obviously by someone rather late to get the news or concerned about Mr. Mitnick's level of self-enlightenment. | |
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|  Darkflight4G Stitch626
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Rowland Heights, CA | Re: I seen it... or saw it?
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 53059959Temp banned from BBR more then anyone
join:2002-10-02
PwnZone | hardly useful a lot of places are known for having wireless, like starbucks and some bookstores (with starbucks inside). and then theres peoples homes, who usually have a dsl or cable connection, which is not worth it. and then there is a campus, but thats usually secure, and on campus. then if your lucky you will find an office, good luck passing encryption. besides, if I found a wireless hotspot, why would I chalk it up? id just get all my friends to go download some warez. | |
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|  P NessYou'Ve Forgotten 9-11 AlreadyPremium
join:2001-08-29
way way out | Re: hardly useful DUH...war chalking turned into WAR MAPPING....have you seen the free WISP maps on the web....
OMG...well some of them are not quite free, but failure to secure a Wireless connection.....easy free access
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join:2000-04-17
Herndon, VA Reviews:
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| Wired Magazine, says it all You can bet your bottom dollar that anything that comes from the bullshit-scented pages of Wired magazine is a bucket of the world's finest dung.
Wired is a remnant of the dot-com orgasmania; where everyone used the word "HOT!" three times in a sentence and thought that anything digital would automatically take over the world.
I'm surprised it still exists; I imagine the office is filled with now aging hipsters in velvet pants wearing thick rimmed glasses scanning things with their cue cats and checking e-mail on their Netpliance i-Openers (unhacked, of course) to see the latest status on Ginger.
Warchalking maybe happens once in a while. In San Francisco, by people who still dial up to The Well. Otherwise, it's useless and another example of some cretin who thinks they've discovered TNBT(TM) (The Next Big Thing) and cries into his latte when he finds out he was dead wrong again.
I remember when I wrote a response to an article that Wired put out 2 years ago about DVHS (the Digital VCR). I remember saying that digital or not, people aren't going to want to pay $1200 for something they have to rewind and fast forward, use a big clunky tape, and had draconian copy protection when open DVD recorders were coming out and would be much cheaper.
The silk-shirt wearing corduroyed Wired "reporter" came back at me with a string of obscenities, telling me that I was "digitally dumb" and had no clue what I was talking about.. He was right, he had the inside scoop, DVHS would be "HOT" and would be a "DVD KILLER", and that was that.
Oh well. I think I'm going to go record a few shows on my $399 Panasonic DVD-R set top recorder, then go over to a friend's house and watch them over there on his $69 Apex.
Meanwhile, someone call me when some real news comes from Wired -- like when they close their doors. | |
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