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	Warchalking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Warchalking is the drawing of symbols in public places to advertise an open Wi-Fi wireless network.
		Inspired by hobo symbols, the warchalking marks were conceived by a group of friends in June 2002 and publicised by Matt Jones who designed the set of icons and produced a downloadable document containing them.
		A well-known photograph of such a warchalk symbol was created by Jones's colleague Ben Hammersley, and has been widely reproduced.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warchalking (330 words)

	Warchalking and Wardriving: Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Warchalking - hyped by the mass media - appears to have been as evanescent as the chalk markings on some pavements to indicate an adjacent open AP.
		It is too easy to miss a warchalk mark, and the chalk wears away (or washes away in the rain) too quickly.
		So I believe that people do rarely make warchalking marks for various reasons (to be cool, to advertise for their own network) but I don't believe that people use warchalking marks in a meaningful way to find Wi-Fi.
	www.caslon.com.au /warchalknote.htm (1947 words)

	NewOrder - news: Wireless Scanning - Wardriving / Warchalking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		WarChalking was conceived by a group of friends in June 2002, and published by Matt Jones.
		WarChalking is simply drawing a chalk symbol on a wall or pavement to indicate the presence of a wireless network, so that other can easily notice it and the details about it.
		WarChalking is a the modern version of the hobo sign language, which was used by low-tech kings of the road to alert each other to shelter, food and potential trouble.
	neworder.box.sk /newsread.php?newsid=6076 (894 words)

	Warchalking: London Wi-Fi guerrillas take tips from hobos - ZDNet UK News
		Warchalking, as the practice has been coined by founder Matt Jones, entails simply drawing a chalk symbol on a wall or pavement to indicate the presence of a wireless networking node.
		But warchalking is remarkable because it is based on an ad hoc process of people discovering Wi-Fi nodes -- whether commercial or not -- and signalling their presence with chalk symbols.
		And the attraction of warchalking is its simplicity.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /internet/0,39020369,2118000,00.htm (1145 words)

	broadband » News » A Small Wager - Whatever happened to Warchalking?
		Soon after that, Warchalking was named one of the "100 most significant ideas of the year 2002" by the New York Times Magazine.
		There was ensuing debate in several media outlets about the legality of Warchalking, with the FBI even issuing a warning to field offices about the practice as if it were a raging epidemic.
		Warchalking was named one of the "100 most significant ideas of the year 2002" by the New York Times Magazine.
	www.dslreports.com /shownews/29964 (1602 words)

	Want Wi-Fi? Learn the secret code \| CNET News.com
		Warchalking, as the practice has been coined by Matt Jones, entails simply drawing a chalk symbol on a wall or pavement to indicate the presence of a wireless networking node.
		But warchalking is remarkable because it is based on an ad hoc process of people discovering Wi-Fi nodes, whether commercial or not, and signaling their presence with chalk symbols.
		The idea of the warchalk symbols, said Jones, is that they should give just enough of a visual cue to indicate that it is worth firing up a notebook or PDA (personal digital assistant).
	news.com.com /2100-1033-939546.html (1424 words)

	Wired News: Wi-Fi Users: Chalk This Way (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Warchalking, it seems, is so cool it doesn't even matter if anyone is really doing it or not.
		Warchalking site is playing like a summer blockbuster across tech blogs, even drawing mainstream media queries to his phone.
		Warchalking is a "perfect storm" confluence of three favorite tech themes, according to John Hiler, a New Yorker who writes about blog culture on his Microcontent News site.
	www.wired.com /news/wireless/0,1382,53638,00.html (750 words)

	Warchalking: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Warchalking is the drawing of symbol symbol quick summary:
		A symbol, in its basic sense, is a representational token for a concept or quantity; i.e....
		Matt jones (born august 5 1968) is a british television writer and producer, who has worked on a variety of popular drama programmes for several television...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/warchalking.htm (992 words)

	Warchalking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This technique became known wargames dialing (sometimes erroneously identified as wardialing ; see also demon dialing) from which warchalking was later derived.
		Having found a Wi-Fi node the warchalker a special symbol on a nearby piece public furniture such as a wall the or a lamp post.
		In certain cities the bellum indicates the presence of an open If the node is later protected by means such as encryption or if the is no longer existent the word bellum should be crossed out and replaced the word pax.
	www.freeglossary.com /Warchalking (178 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Technology \| Technology \| Working the web: Warchalking
		Warchalking's rise to infamy has even been given an air of governmental legitimacy, at least in the US: the state of Utah is planning on using the warchalking symbols on 250 government buildings.
		Warchalking derives from the old cracker term, wardialling.
		Warchalking could, it seems, have a dark side, and some are worried it will be used as a tool for crackers, alerting the criminally minded to networks with less than perfect security.
	technology.guardian.co.uk /online/story/0,3605,748499,00.html (725 words)

	internet freedom: articles-07-Jul-2003 \| Whither Warchalking
		The explosion of the warchalking phenomenon onto the blogs and news sites of the Internet may have initially created a lot of hype and the standard hysterical response from the telecommunications companies.
		It would seem that the importance of warchalking lies not in the stated aim of delivering free Net access to the public, but in the furtive sharing of a private language between a tiny minority of devotees.
		So Wi-Fi is taking off, and leaving warchalking behind it, and whilst strong concerns remain about the security of the technology from the point of view of major corporations (3), it seems that the built-in security is good enough for home users and coffee-shop owners.
	www.netfreedom.org /news.asp?item=207 (993 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| FBI warns about wireless craze
		The warchalking phenomena is only a couple of months old but it has generated a huge amount of interest.
		So the FBI is issuing advice to companies to be on the lookout for warchalk marks as a pointer to the security of their wireless network.
		Warchalkers have questioned the scare stories surrounding the phenomena, saying that anyone with malicious intent is unlikely to publicly mark their target.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/2197252.stm (403 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Chalk points to wireless internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The idea of "warchalking" derives from the early days of computer networks when curious hackers would engage in "wardialling" expeditions which involved phoning lots of numbers to see which ones answered with a data, rather than a dial, tone.
		Warchalks are a good way to let people know of their existence and zero in on their exact location, said Mr Jones.
		Now a company is producing warchalking clothing and the practice of using a wireless network for free internet access has even made it to the panels of the respected Doonesbury cartoon.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/2144279.stm (620 words)

	Wireless Glossary: Warchalking
		There are three basic designs that are currently used: a pair of back-to-back semicircles, which denotes an open node; a closed circle, which denotes a closed node; a closed circle with a W inside, which denotes a node equipped with WEP.
		Warchalkers also draw identifiers above the symbols to indicate the password that can be used to access the node, which can easily be obtained with sniffer software.
		As a recent development, the debate over the legality of warchalking is still going on.
	portals.devx.com /wireless/Door/11460 (318 words)

	Warchalking For Wi-Fi: A Novel Idea Loses Steam \| NetStumbler.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A warchalking symbol might notify individuals that 802.11 hot spot service is available between Main Street and Third Avenue, for instance.
		Jones and company hoped that their graphic language would be adopted internationally, and that eventually, metal signs with warchalking symbols would direct users to local hot spots.
		Consequently, warchalking carries the potential for practitioners to direct wireless users to networks where they are not welcome.
	www.netstumbler.com /2005/10/03/warchalking_for_wi_fi_a_novel_idea_loses_steam (789 words)

	Moving WebWord > How Warchalking Died
		As the Warchalking web site states, this kind of language was first utilized by hobos during the Great Depression to communicate with each other for various purposes, mostly to find safe harbor.
		This is not an attack on the warchalkers.
		Warchalking is just another form of graffiti to them, or worse.
	webword.com /moving/warchalking.html (1114 words)

	USATODAY.com - Warchalking: Sign of the wireless-hopping times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It can be done legitimately — for instance, many coffee shops allow their patrons to use wireless networks in their stores — but it is mostly done by people with laptops who park themselves outside offices or on school campuses where wireless networks are used.
		"Warchalking makes wireless networks easier to find and poses a threat to companies using Wi-Fi because they're exposing ways for people to gain access and potentially do harm," he said.
		But despite the potential problems, Jones feels that warchalking — or some derivative of it — is here to stay.
	usatoday.com /tech/news/computersecurity/2002-07-29-warchalking_x.htm (534 words)

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		To: cypherpunks Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:01:50 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Forwarded for a colleague: For background, Warchalking is the use of symbols (marked with chalk) to indicate the presence of a Wi-Fi hotspot.
		In pure form, the story of warchalking is that there is a subculture of Wi-Fi users that use chalk to communicate with each other about Wi-Fi locations.
		Caveats: (1) Warchalking done by the provider of the hotspot does not count -- it is supposedly a co-option of the "pure" subculture.
	www.politechbot.com /p-04914.html (610 words)

	WARCHALKING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Warchalking is the practice of making chalk marks on walls or pavements to indicate a wireless access point.
		Warchalkers are, or were, driven by a variety of motives, among which getting free wireless access seems strangely unimportant.
		For those warchalkers that do mark out access points, some chalk the marks on pavements, assuming that while walls tend to be owned by somebody, the ground is a free public arena.
	www.iconworld.co.uk /wireless (2213 words)

	Boing Boing: Warchalking FUD in the Calgary Sun
		The drive-by hacking phenomenon -- dubbed "warchalking" because crooks who have succeeded mark buildings with a visible chalk sign to invite further attacks -- was tested by an English newspaper that, within minutes and undetected, broke into the private network used by the Cabinet Office and MPs...
		Warchalking is used by wireless enthusiasts to signal the presence of open "community" networks (that's why I've got a wachalk mark that I've drawn out front of my apartment here in San Francisco which has an open wireless network as a public-spirited community gesture) as well as outside of my office here in San Francisco.
		Every in-the-wild warchalk mark I've ever seen or heard of was used to denote the existence of such a network.
	www.boingboing.net /2002/08/26/warchalking_fud_in_t.html (497 words)

	Macmillan English Dictionary Resource Site – New Words – warchalking
		Warchalks are a good way to let people know of their existence and zero in on their exact location …’
		warchalking was then an obvious development, a way of indicating to passers-by where they could get wireless access.
		warchalking was coined by the founder of the practice Matt Jones, a London-based Internet design expert, in June 2002.
	www.macmillandictionary.com /New-Words/050117-warchalking.htm (478 words)

	CBC Marketplace: Warchalking in a Wireless World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Warchalkers are part of an underground movement that seeks out wireless signals, allowing "free" access to internet connections.
		Michelle, the warchalker, takes us to the heart of Toronto's downtown financial district to show just how much unprotected wireless signal there is for the taking.
		We asked him what he thought about warchalking, considerng the company's logo is similar to the open network warchalking symbol.
	www.cbc.ca /consumers/market/files/home/warchalking (1240 words)

	War(chalking): What is it Good For?
		While warchalking might end up exposing some corporate resources to abuse by outside users, Craig says that warchalking, if it catches on in the US, will primarily be used to notify travelers of the availability of community hotspots.
		Taking a positive stance on warchalking is Adam Shand, founder of PersonalTelco, a Portland-based organization that promotes a community-based network that is built, maintained and operated by the public.
		Townsend cites the impermanence of chalk as a possible catalyst for warchalkers to graduate to paint or a longer-lasting substance.
	www.wi-fiplanet.com /columns/article.php/1402401 (1093 words)

	Warchalking is theft, says Nokia - vnunet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Warchalking, the technique of highlighting areas where wireless networks can be accessed freely, has been blasted as theft.
		And the practitioners of warchalking are being slammed as bandwidth thieves in an advisory issued by mobile and wireless vendor Nokia.
		The initial hysteria was over security, when it emerged that warchalkers may also be freely browsing corporate networks and accessing private company information.
	www.vnunet.com /vnunet/news/2120107/warchalking-theft-nokia (477 words)

	Hotspot Finder - Warchalking 101
		Though warchalking is lost on non-geeks, many Wi-Fi users are discovering that in dense urban areas, especially those with retail businesses underneath multi-unit apartment buildings, it's pretty common to find an open wireless networks, thanks to the generous (or careless) neighbors upstairs who haven't locked down their wireless networks.
		Jones proposed marking sidewalks, walls, or telephone poles where networks could be found with a set of chalk-mark symbols based on the old sign language that hobos used to alert one another to food, shelter, or potential trouble during the Great Depression in the 1930s.
		Jones dubbed this practice "warchalking," a pun on "wardialing," introduced in the 1983 movie Wargames, in which a young hacker has his computer automatically dial all the phone numbers in the area looking for other computers.
	usatoday.jiwire.com /warchalking-introduction.htm (440 words)

	warchalking - a Whatis.com definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Warchalking is a grass roots effort to create a standard iconography for public Wi-Fi access.
		Because chalk markings are temporary, warchalkers hope to avoid legal fines for defacing public or private property.
		The name warchalking is derived from the cracker terms war dialing and war driving.
	whatis.techtarget.com /gDefinition/0,294236,sid40_gci854904,00.html (277 words)

	BW Online \| July 3, 2002 \| A Wireless End Run Around ISPs
		Jones dubbed the symbols "warchalks," a play on "wardriving" or "warwalking," which refers to people who toot around cities with special software designed to sniff out open wireless nodes.
		"Warchalking reminded me of when I was Boy Scout and we lay twigs in a certain configuration on the path to direct people to water.
		Warchalking pioneer Hammersley reports that on July 1, when it rained for the first time in a week, his chalk scrawl remained visible.
	www.businessweek.com /technology/content/jul2002/tc2002073_1130.htm (1565 words)

	Warchalking a map for drive-by spammers \| Tech News on ZDNet
		Warchalking signals have been springing up in areas such as London and Silicon Valley over recent months.
		Matt Jones, who invented warchalking, told ZDNet UK News recently that one advantage is that it alerts sysadmins to the fact their wireless network is insecure.
		Wright illustrated that warchalking is alive in remote locations as well as cities by producing a photo of a warchalking signal drawn on a buoy floating at sea.
	zdnet.com.com /2100-1105-956886.html (823 words)

	Fwd: FC: A $1 wager: Wireless "warchalking" does not exist
		It is too easy to > miss > a warchalk mark, and the chalk wears away (or washes away in the rain) > too > quickly.
		Warchalking symbols were heavily promoted in the New York > Times > just 48 hours after they were first made public on the Web.
		So I believe that people do > rarely make warchalking marks for various reasons (to be cool, to > advertise > for their own network) but I don't believe that people use > warchalking > marks in a meaningful way to find Wi-Fi.
	www.seattlewireless.net /pipermail/talk/2003-July/004466.html (761 words)

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