HERT: HERT Interviews Kismet's Author, Mike Kershaw | Linux Today

HERT: HERT Interviews Kismet’s Author, Mike Kershaw

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 21, 2004

“Kismet is simply the best war driving tool out there plus it’s
free as in GPL. It runs on linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and even on your
little linux PDA. The brain and guts driving its development is
Mike Kershaw alias Dragorn, works during the day on IBM mainframes
and hack kismet code at night. Mike graciously agreed to a HERT
interview to tell us a little bit more about himself, his view on
WiFi security and the future of Kismet.

What is your background?

“I’ve been running Linux for about 10 years now, and programming
since I was a wee larva on a TI-99a console…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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