Foreword v 1.0
Jeff Moss’s Foreword from the first edition of WarDriving: Drive, Detect, Defend A Guide to Wireless Security
When I was thirteen years old and my father got an IBM PC-2 (the one with 640k!) at a company discount, my obsession with computers and computer security began. Back then the name of the game was dial-up networking. 300-baud modems with “auto dial” were in hot demand! This meant that you didn’t have to manually dial anymore!
You could see where this was going. It would be possible to have your computer dial all the phone numbers in your prefix looking for other systems it could connect to. This was a great way to see what was going on in your calling area, because seeing what was going on in long distance calling areas ...
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