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Wardriving on your Iphone with WiFiFoFum

February 4th, 2009 admin Leave a comment Go to comments

Browsing my RSS feeds yesterday, I found an excellent post on the SynJunkie Blog about Wardriving with WiFiFoFum.

As an aside, the whole SynJunkie site is worth a read.  There are some excellent stories demonstrating the penetration of a fictious company and about social engineering.

So I purchased WifiFoFum from the Itunes store ($2.99) and played around with it a little bit on the way to work this morning.  I turned the scanning rate to continuous and in a 30 minute ride to work this morning.  Just like any Iphone app, it will shut down once you close the program. However, it does appear to continue to scan and log if you lock the phone. It really heated up the phone (not surprising) and it found lots of access points (close to 300).  You might not think that is much, but I commute through a rather large rural area with lots of farmland.

Sample from Google Maps on the IphoneWiFiFoFum

The nice thing about the logs is that you can either view them on the built in Google maps application on the Iphone or email the KML file and use something like Google Earth.  The logs are stored on the Aspecto Software site and the word on the street is that they won’t be running out of storage space soon.  However, they suggest you download them as you need them in case the server changes.

So far, this app looks pretty awesome and will be fun to play with.  I will do another post once I have used it for a few days.  Stay tuned.

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  • David Grant
    ALL of the iPhone WiFi Scanning applications have been abruptly removed from the app store... So, if you want to war drive on the iPhone, you will need to jailbreak. yFy Network Finder will reappear on cydia soon.
  • Hi, if you liked wififofum, you'll LOVE yFy Network Finder. This application takes war driving to the next level. It maintains its own internal database. It is always refining its data. The more times you scan an area the more accurate your data will be. The mapping features are 100% integrated into the application, so your data doesn't have to leave your device to obtain your maps. In fact, you can watch the map being built as you are scanning.

    Please check it out. If you'd like a promo code for this app, please let me know.

    http://www.infomind.com/iphone/yfy.html
    iphone@infomind.com
  • cheesemaker30
    Hi Ed,
    Wanted to let you know about a new iPhone WarDriving app called WiFi-Where. It's actually based on a version that I wrote about 5 years ago for the Palm. Anyway, as one of the developers on it, I thought you might be interested in finding out about it. You can see screen shots on the app store or on our site at www.threejacks.com/wifiwhere
    If you'd like a free/promo code, just shoot me an email to jon at that domain name. We really think that it's the best iPhone wardriving app as it was written specifically for that task and is based on the 5 years of experience we gained with the Palm (RIP) version.

    Cheers!

    -Jon
  • OO
    The fact that they send off my GPS data to Somewhere Else without even asking first was a real dealbreaker for me. Its MY PRIVATE DATA, and I really want to be notified before someone steals it. So I am quite angry with the makers of Wififofum. They also ships off my iPhones UID, something I am even less fond of.

  • SynJunkie
    Glad to see you digging the app too. Thanks for the mention

    Syn
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