WiFi sniffer turns your DS into a wardriving tool
By Evan Blass 
posted January 22nd 2006 6:15PM
posted January 22nd 2006 6:15PM
Where would we
be without the homebrew community, who snaz up our gadgets and humorously frustrate The Man at the same time? The
latest little tool to emerge from the 'brewers' bag of tricks is a program called DS2Key (for Nintendo DS, duh), which features a "Wardriving" app (using the DSWifi programming library by
Stephen Stair) that displays the SSID, WEP status, MAC addresses, and signal strength for whatever WLANs happen to be
broadcasting nearby. Auto-refresh means that while you're driving around, um, looking to help your neighbors beef up
their network security (i.e. "it's not a virus, it's a proof-of-concept"), DS2Key automatically updates all pertinent info. Shine on you crazy coders,
shine on- touching is good, but free broadband is better.[Via DS Fanboy]
"25. I have both a psp and a ds, and I can honestly say that the psp is pure crap. The games for it are HORRIBLE. Its basically useless as a multimedia device since the memory is so damned expensive. If it had a hd or used more common (read: cheaper) memory it may be worth it, but spending that much on memory is a waste, and you can't encode your own stuff in its native res without some hacking. The only alternative is buying umd movies, which I refuse to do. I will NOT buy my movies twice, period. If I buy a movie, it will be on dvd where I can watch it whereever I want and encode it onto whatever device I want, including the psp. Spending more money on a umd than on a dvd with less features and can only be used on 1 device is completely useless and idiotic imo. The games on the ds are just plain fun, psp games are complete rehashes of ps2 games that are overpriced ($50) compared to their ps2 versions. I'd rather have new and innovate stuff than old rehashes."
YES. I have both the PSP and DS, and I would say the DS is MUCH better. I never play my PSP anymore, because the games are so expensive! :| Why would I pay $50 for a portable game when i can get a console version with more features for the same price? I am about to sell my PSP for $200. Hoo-ray. I love my DS. *hug* >_>
If you want to pretend you're not 14 years old, either phisically or mentally, and want other 14 year olds to think you're grown up, and then go to the internet and write about how grown up yor stuff is cause it has violence and sex, you go and but a PSP, cause magazines and tv says it's mature to buy PSP, so it must be true and no one will doubt your maturity when you say you're mature because you own a PSP, after all that's what mature adults buy when they want a portable console, because if it doesnt have goth-emo antiheroes who blast prostitutes in the chest it's not mature.
Gotta say, this flame war is amusing. I like how people argue that the $350 PSP, with a $100-180 hard drive add-on, can watch movies and sniff wifi just as well as the $200 DS. Even if you factor in $30 for a wifi card to softmod the DS, $30 for a Compact Flash/Secure Digital adapter, and $20-$100 for a CF/SD card to put the movies on, that still only adds up to $280-$360 (depending on card size), compared to the $460-$540 to do the same on PSP. And since it uses CF/SD cards, it won't drain the battery as fast as a hard drive would. Plus you can sit the DS up like a mini-TV. ;-)
Anyway, regarding the article, this is pretty cool. Yes, a laptop would be more useful, but this makes warwalking easier, and will be useful once some web browsers/IRC clients/etc come out.
Also, ROFL @ Wariodriving.