Quote: Originally Posted by Chairboy
A popular use of WiFi in car computer setups is called 'War Driving'. This is a process where you run a program that looks for access points that allow you to access the internet. A typical use of that might be to have a program that periodically grabs a few K worth of data from a traffic site or occasionally uploads your GPS coordinates to a server for tracking.
albeit somewhat correct that statement isn't 100% correct.
wardriving is "The benign act of locating and logging wireless access points while in motion"
has nothing to do with locating access points for accessing the internet, it's merely a statistical data gathering method.
and your "typical" use is incorrect, it doesn't grab ANY K's of data, it merely notes where a radio beacon is being broadcasted.