Review of "Wardriver"

Yesterday, I watched a movie called "Wardriver."  It has taken me at least 24 hours to figure out that the title of the movie is supposed to refer to the practice of wardriving, an occupation of driving (or, very often, walking) around, trying to find wifi hotspots which are either completely unprotected, or for which the protection is weak and easily broken.

It has taken me that long because the practice of wardriving, in reality, is nothing like the activities done in the movie.  War driving is, itself, a derivation of war dialing; an earlier practice whereby you would mass dial a whole bunch of different phone numbers, attempting to find modems, and particularly modems where the login credentials were weak or non-existent.  The practice of both war dialing and war driving was to find systems that you could get access to.  Neither practice was particularly suitable for attacking a specific company or enterprise, or even a particular type of company or enterprise.

The activities taking place in the movie were directed at very specific types of companies.  As a matter of fact, a number of different practices were involved in the movie, including, rather later in the movie, the practice of credit card skimming, which has absolutely nothing to do with connecting to specific systems, or even systems in general.

There may be other technical activities going on in this movie.  Quite frankly, nothing in the movie prompted me to pay particular attention to the technology that was going on or being used, and the movie is, as so many movies are these days, in very dark settings, which makes it difficult to see anyways, and there are activities going on involving text or chat, which are displayed on screen in fonts too small for my aged eyes to read.  Yes, it was a DVD, and I could have stopped and enlarged the text to figure out more of what was going on, but, once again, there was absolutely nothing in the movie that prompted me to want to take that kind of trouble to figure out extra details of what was going on.