Aug 24 2004

Wi-Foo

Published by Martin at 6:34 am under General

Alex Moskalyuk Weblog: Wi-Foo authors on wireless security problems

Alex Moskalyuk sent me a link to an interview he did with Konstantin Gavrilenko about his new book, Wi-Foo. I hadn’t heard of the book before, but given how often I’ve been to the book store lately, that’s not too suprising.

The book sounds like it may be worth a perusal. The insecurity of WiFi is nothing new, but a timely review of some of the new tools out there for Wardriving might be worth your time. Too bad that this is still such a young field and that the book will be outdated before the end of the year. Such is the nature of cutting edge technology.

I find the tone and opinions expressed by the author in the interview a little funny. His hatred for Windows is almost comic in it’s virulence. Not that his opinion is wrong, but just so stereotypical of an OpenSource zealot. I’m more of an OS agnostic, trying to find the good in Windows as well as Linux and other OpenSource. I even put up with the pecularities of Sun from time to time. I may just be overly critical. Check out the article yourself.

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One Response to “Wi-Foo”

  1. # Scotton 24 Aug 2004 at 7:55 am

    I think you’re exaggerating quite a bit when you say that “His hatred for Windows is almost comic in it’s virulence.” I read the interview looking for that, and I didn’t see it. Where in particular do you do see “hatred” or “virulence”? He makes a reasonable critique - that few tools for wardriving exist for Windows, and that one of them that does exist is terrible. If anything, he’s more negative about NetStumbler than Windows.