War driving should be illegal, you're stealing someone's
bandwidth. However, due to the fact on how war driving works,
unless the victim is an IT expert, they are unlikely to be able to
trace who is the war driver, and if the victim is an IT expert, you
wouldn't be able to war drive into his network in the first place,
so I guess the conclusion is that although war driving is illegal,
but you're unlikely to be caught and even if you are, it shouldn't
be a harsh punishment.
In certain areas, there are people who drive a vehicle, van most of
the time and fitted a high strength signal dish for the purpose of
war driving and it can detect networks within certain miles,
depending on how powerful their dish is.
Right now, broadband is so freely available in Singapore that I
don't think it's worth the time. It's definitely cheaper to
subscribe to your own broadband than spending on the petrol money.
But of course back in the older days, broadband prices were high
and it helps saving if you know where to get it. That's why people
do war driving.
Right now if I wanted internet, I could hop to macdonalds or
something. But macdonald internet speed normally is crawling like a
snail. It's like going to macdonald to watch a show on a 21 inch tv
when you could have watch it on a 42 inch tv at home.
