My WiFi is ‘Secret Rebel Base’.
My neighbours have added ‘Jabba the Hub’, ‘Obi Lan Kenobi’, and ‘Red WiFi-ve Standing By’. This makes me happy.
Anyone else live in a neighbourhood that embraces this kind of WiFi silliness?
I joined my neighbor. Her WiFi is called “gothcave”, so I named mine “nerdcave”
All my neighbors are lame but I have two routers, giving me a total of six SSIDs to play with. So I have wifi names like “Trump Fucks Kids”, “Charlie Kirk was a Literal Nazi”, and “Where are the Epstein Files”?
Do you have 2.4, 5, and guest on each?
Chad
Forgot to mention that I live in a red state too.
My network is named “Hot Signals In Your Area”. It used to be “Routers of the Lost Ark”. My guest network is “Guesty McGuestface”
Unfortunately, no one else in my building has anything creative.
I’ve seen “Leader Desslock”, “NSA_Hotspot”, “Wicked Evil Jowls”. In college someone in my dorm named their’s “Business Isn’t a Real Major”
“FBI Surveillance Van” was my favorite local.
I should throw up a new “Antifa Countersurveillance Stationwagon” ssid
My neighbour’s was Gaypeopleshouldbeshot. I moved out as soon as I could.
I would’ve mine up to match but milder. “Are the Straight Ok?” and “I’ve Seen Your Hateful Straight Ass On Grindr”
Sadly in my apartment complex they seem to all use the default name given by the router (like Carrier-randomnumbers).
I have a friend who named his WiFi “Connecting…” which is diabolical
Mine is “network unavailable”.
Ours is “Unsecured WiFi”
Three top SSIDs!
I worked in tech support for a few years and the amount of times a boomer read this out to me… Well maybe only a couple but it was funny explaining it to them
We had a bunch of “surveillance van #X” at an old apartment. I joined in.
This was before surveillance vans were a real threat though. Not as funny with all the ice shit these days.
Neighbors at my old apartment had KKK as their network name. They were huge pieces of shit who knew I could hear everything through the walls, so they would have entire conversations about me with slurs every other word. They were also armed, and talked about their guns constantly (again, knowing I could hear everything). Imagine laying in bed at 3am trying to get some sleep before a 7am meeting, and having to listen to two racist assholes literally yell through the walls just to harass me and make sure I couldn’t fall asleep.
Living there was so stressful.
What the fuck is wrong with people.
That’s when you mail yourself letters from “FBI sharpshooter association” or “Krav Maga instructors association”, and after receiving them post marked, drop them in their mailbox, as if it were postman error.
Mine has been “WiFi Art Thou Romeo?” for 20+ years
Since OpenWRT supports special characters in wifi names, mine is (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
It fucks with older wifi chips but most modern stuff connects just fine
Years ago my local firefighters were setting up a wifi setup that went across the town for them to use, so we named our wifi after theirs, about a week later we get a knock on the door asking us to change it because the firefighters around me couldn’t connect to their network.
Not sure how they found out it was us, I think someone ratted us out.
Wifi hotspots can be quite easily triangulated.
Mine is “Untrusted Network”
I’d set mine up to say “Distrusted Network” and hope it gets progressively sinister beyond that.
It’s not super creative but I named my mom’s network “The Internet” so when she asks for help with getting online I can ask if she’s tried connecting to The Internet.
My phone hotspot is “Starbucks Free Wi-Fi” passworded of course.
My home is “Router? I hardly know her!”
A great password to use is “thepasswordtowhat”.
Friend: Hey whats your wifi password?
Me: thepasswordtowhat
Friend: Your wifi
Me: What about it?
Friend: WHATS THE PASSWORD?
Me: thepasswordtowhat
Friend: Frustrated noises.
I know a guy in college whose dorm ended up with a wifi naming theme. Someone (highly suspected to be the passive aggressive super religious fundie on the floor above) changed their wifi name to “Stop, we can all hear you having sex”
So naturally, someone changed theirs to ‘I can hear you NOT having sex’
at that point it was on lol.
On for everyone but that dude
I’m sure that was the case well before that point.
Be safe guys. Because of SSID location mapping services it’s possible to pinpoint the location of many people in this thread.
Because of SSID location mapping
People really out there mapping SSID’s? I fail to understand how that data is at all valuable, changing an SSID takes seconds and a gram of brain power.
Very few people actually change their SSID. The bigger point is that, considering sites like Wigle.net exist and the Google Street view cars were designed to capture all SSID data (they hired the guy who made NetStumbler, a popular open source SSID scanning tool in the early 2000’s), it’s trivial to get within a few hundred feet with just a few SSID’s in an area. When your neighbor has an SSID of Comcast-12345 (aka random string), there is probably only one location that has your SSID and the Comcast one in the same location. You can change your SSID every day, but your neighbors probably don’t change theirs.
There’s literally websites where you can search for them.
Oh thats easy, android uses ( or at least used it in the past ) these services for location.
Android will first try gps to get your location. However, gps needs direct connection to a satellite and can easily be either turned off or not working correctly.
It then tries to triangulate your location using cell towers and their location, which gives a rough estimate on your location.
Then it scans SSID’s that are near to hone down some more on your location, and its this step that needs that data.Edit: it used to also scan, and save, SSID names with a rough estimate location to fill and update this database. I say used to, cause thats how it worked circa 2009, so idk how it works nowadays
A lot of the SSIDs in this thread have been used multiple times in different locations. But you raise a valid point.
I just fed a bunch of them I expected to be unique through a skyhook provider, all but one so far had at least dozens.
Some people have posted a list of the SSIDs around them. What’s the chance some of those dozens also having one of the others nearby? Pretty low I’d say.
There’s also the fact that you can use previously posted information by a user to narrow down the list. Let’s say an SSID is found 50 times, one in each US state, but the user posted in another thread what state they are in? You just narrowed down the list to a single SSID.
Being safe online is a bunch of things together. You just need to piss of the wrong one to have it all combed trough. Posting the name of an SSID close to you is like posting your street name without the city or country name.
good point.
Mine is: ITHertzWhenIP
Mine as well. My 2.5 is ithertzwhenIP My 5 band is BillWIthescienceFI
One of my neighbours has a pretty clever one. Michiel de Ruiter is a common Dutch name, so they made it ‘Michiel de Router’
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