waldoj / albemarle-broadband

Work and ideas about my work on the Albemarle Broadband Authority.
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Consider making a new wardriving tool #20

Open waldoj opened 5 years ago

waldoj commented 5 years ago

So this might be some galaxy-brain-level nonsense, but I'm starting to think I should write my own wardriving tool. "It will be easy," he declared.

I want stereoscopic wardriving. With two wifi receivers, one on each window, seems to me that I ought to be able to use the two to figure out in which direction that the base station is. By combining that with compass data (which way the vehicle is pointing) and signal strength (as a proxy for distance), I can come up with a rough estimate of how which direction and far away that a base station is.

Also, Kismet decides that a base station is wherever I was when I first picked it up, which is dumb. I'd rather take a series of readings, and base the location on wherever the strongest reading was.

Seems like I could just combine gpspipe and nmcli here. Run both every 5 seconds, and if any base stations are found, pipe the output to a CSV file. Then use a post-processor to eliminate all of the duplicates (selecting the best example), infer the distance and direction of base stations, etc.