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                                  Because …

I was hanging out with some friends today when I mentioned the war driving
[1] I did on Friday. One friend, Russel, then asked, “Why? What's the purpose
of war driving?” Curious, coming from someone in The Industry.

Then I began thinking—what was the purpose? It's not like we've been hired as
a tiger team [2] or where bent upon wanton destruction of Internet resources.
I think it came down to something that I (and the rest of the war driving
team) found fun; because we could; a kind of “this is cool!”

Besides, we learned something on Friday's war drive: CVS Pharmacy stores [3]
have open wireless networks [4], which we all found interesting. Other stores
too, like Dollar Store [5]. Not that we can legally use the information, but
it's still an interesting result we weren't expecting.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2003/10/10.1
[2] http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/t/tigerteam.html
[3] http://www.cvs.com/
[4] http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=cvsretail
[5] http://www.dollarstore.com/

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