As part of a project I was completing in Computer Security I thought I would target war-driving.

For those who do not know what war-driving is - it is essentially the process of using off-the-shelf computing equipment to identify unsecured or poorly secured networks to exploit for free bandwidth or to access.

I thought the most practical way of gaining data was to simply walk from one end of a street to the other end, using my modest Blackberry mobile phone to scan...