What Is Wardriving? Build & Use JHewitt WarDriver

Published 2024-05-03
A friend has sent me a JHewitt Wardriver from 463n7. Lets build it and take it on a drive!

Links from the show:
Wardriver 463n7.io/
Github for images: github.com/JosephHewitt/wardriver_rev3
jhewitt.net/portable_wardriver
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving
wardriver.uk/
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All Comments (21)
  • Was that film War Games, where the computer says Do you want to Play Global Thermonuclear War? 😮 Actually, I was an officer in the USAF, over 50 years ago, being 80 today, in SAC at an Atomic Weapon AiForce Base, back then, and it was and still is no game. I am a 100% Disabled Veteran now, happy 😊 and over 60 years as an amateur radio operator .😊
  • @463n7
    Great video! I need to add something in my video about those little screens I have broken many of them here recently in assembling these. Also thanks for the shout out and link. Just a heads up though I change the product page based on the month I'm planning to send out a kit so you might want to change the link just to my base site so it doesn't die.
  • @cabe_bedlam
    ‘82 Crew represent! I built a dipole 2.4ghz antenna on a mag mount years ago, it’s a lot of fun even just scraping SSID names!
  • @brickerhaus
    I am still waiting for mine. Thanks for the build video.
  • Awesome video !! Great getting the knowledge out there man! And that dude that sent you that is good good people !!!
  • @KB0OTY
    Back in the early days of wifi, I drove around with a thinkpad running linux with kismet and gpsdrive with a pcmcia card set to promiscuous mode. My gps was a garmin connected via serial port. most of the hotspots had no security at all back then, and the ones that did had WEP.
  • @port443p
    iPods in 2008 used some similar database to geolocate themselves. It was kept up to date very good (found out when I moved, haha). Google street view vehicles should be capturing this as well.
  • @fergiebiker
    On small gauge wire like that, I like to heat the end up with a flame, then use my thumb nail and forefinger to strip the insulation. Wired a few race cars doing that, and you build up a decent callus after a while.
  • @HR4NT
    I'm kinda with you Josh, it would be a fun build because I like kit building, but not sure how often I would use this as far as a regular basis. I think the case design has flaws and would frustrate someone in the assembly process. There's definitely a learning curve to using this for those like me who have never done this before, but still very interesting. I about died when the screen cracked on you! Wow! Great video as always. Take care. 73!
  • @AD6DMDennis
    If you see any of the videos where I'm on a livestream from home, you'll see a movie poster of WarGames in the background. It was a hugely impactful movie in my early life as well.
  • @Z28videogates
    The most powerful WiFi radio is the EnGenius EUB-9603H 600mW 2.4GHz USB adapter. It has an RP-SMA connector so you can run an external antenna. It is a beast. With the laptop, you pick up 3 networks, with it, you pick up 30.
  • @timkeene2717
    Tin the wires first Josh and then no fraid wires....As always nice videos
  • Twenty years ago I stalked many neighborhoods with my laptop hooked to a magmount on the roof of my car ❤
  • @Ctaylor83
    I knew what was going to happen at the start, I've done the exact same thing with the screen on mine. Thankfully they're pretty cheap to buy!
  • @ThaVoodoo1
    Google street view vehicles do wardriving. Use a laptop with Kismet. It is an open source sniffer, WIDS, wardriver, and packet capture tool for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, BTLE, wireless thermometers, airplanes, power meters, Zigbee, and more. Kismet runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows (via WSL). Kismet can operate both headless as a standalone capture and WIDS system, or with a full modern web-based UI.
  • @ajhunt239
    I'm not too good with small soldering, but I enjoy this change of video on kits
  • @BoxBin982
    Great video, if you want to stay in the game join a wardriving team, get some competition going, have fun with it. I use an android phone and JHewitt kit like this one for wardriving.
  • @kchaney56
    Tile huh, I am going to try that tonight.
  • @KH07734
    I as well had an Atari mega XL and I wrote a war soaker as well. It got me in some trouble,I did find hundreds of end points and all I can say about that.