Accidental bus wardriving

Yesterday on the bus ride home, I popped open the MBP to watch the latest BSG (sorry, couldn’t resist the acronym alliteration). As I typically do, I started to crank down the screen brightness and to turn off Airport in order to conserve power.

When I pulled down the Airport menu, I was surprised at the the huge list of wireless networks. Some are obvious, like “Brueggers_Free_Wifi”, “WifiPittsburgh”. Others are interesting because they are obviously wireless routers being used in their default configuration, probably without WEP or WPA. I don't approve of stealing wireless, but it would be interesting to see which ones are open. I didn’t try, though, since the bus was moving and I’d probably be out of range in a few seconds.