Why is wardriving useful?
Wardriving provides a unique opportunity to gauge the growth of a technology market segment by direct inspection. In other words, we don’t have to take a vendor’s or research firm’s word for how many wireless networks are out there. We can go out and look for ourselves. This isn’t possible for things like digital cameras and DVD burners. In conjunction with some understanding of the demographics of an area, it’s possible to use wardriving data to get a sense for how “connected” or “tech savvy” a neighbourhood or region is. This sounds dull, but in fact wardriving is fun in the sense that a scavenger hunt is fun: You never know what you’re going to find when you go out, and you expect to be surprised. The wardriving community is (as you’d expect) heavily connected via the Internet, and you can meet a lot of interesting and extremely skilled network and radio people by becoming part of the community.
Wardriving provides a unique opportunity to gauge the growth of a technology market segment by direct inspection. In other words, we don’t have to take a vendor’s or research firm’s word for how many wireless networks are out there. We can go out and look for ourselves. This isn’t possible for things like digital cameras and DVD burners. In conjunction with some understanding of the demographics of an area, it’s possible to use wardriving data to get a sense for how “connected” or “tech savvy” a neighborhood or region is. This sounds dull, but in fact wardriving is fun in the sense that a scavenger hunt is fun: You never know what you’re going to find when you go out, and you expect to be surprised. The wardriving community is (as you’d expect) heavily connected via the Internet, and you can meet a lot of interesting and extremely skilled network and radio people by becoming part of the community. There is a lot of sharing of technology knowledge within the community, in things like ne
