Wardriving To Stay Anonymous
To start off, lets define the word “wardriving” : the act of locating and possibly exploiting connections to wireless local area networks while driving around a city or elsewhere. [techtarget.com] Wardriving can be a very useful tool if you don’t feel like paying a monthly fee for a high speed internet connection. It also can be useful if you want to search the web anonymously.
Wireless networking is fairly insecure, especially in the hands of Joe Schmoe who wants to be cool with a wireless network. More than 75% of the networks you'll find will have the default SSID, and more than likely, the default router login. ie. Just about all Linksys routers can be connected through via http://192.168.1.1/, leaving the username blank, and using "admin" as the password.
But if you get access to a person’s access point (AP) are you really anonymous? No, you are not completely anonymous. Yes, you aren’t using your own internet connection so the ip you are surfing the web from isn’t linked to your ISP account, but if you are constantly using the same person’s AP you are bound to get caught. But there is an easy solution to this:
First off, NEVER USE THE SAME AP MORE THAN TWICE IN THE SAME MONTH! Better yet, never use the same AP more than twice!
