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?
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!
Did it elope with the satellite signal?
In my neighborhood multiple people still have unsecure printers so the list always has more than one HP-Setup{numbers}.
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.
The WiFi hotspot on my phone is called “Initializing…”
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
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
Probably end up getting your place raided by morons.
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”
Business Isn’t a Real Major
Diabolical, love it.
How about “Econ isn’t a science”
Opening up wifi list at every DefCon I’ve been to:
“Never gonna give you up”
"Never gonna say goodbye "
"Never gonna run around "
“And desert you”
I cannot believe just how absurdly long that has endured - it’s almost literally been an eternity in Internet time.
even longer than loss
Somehow I missed out on that entirely - I only learned of it relatively recently. Probably because I’ve never been into memes all that much.
it’s no great loss
*groan*
That’s impressive.
I think it helps that it’s genuinely a really catchy, uplifting, fucking excellent song, with a fun music video, and the artist really seems like an incredibly wholesome sweetheart.
It also my Fortnite dance when I get a win. Just cause.
It’s my Octavia tune on warframe. I have had people quit matches on me for it :|
Mine is: ITHertzWhenIP
Mine as well. My 2.5 is ithertzwhenIP My 5 band is BillWIthescienceFI
Mobile terhering hotspot is: 8 HZ WAN IP
I’m waiting for somebody to be looking at their phone, smile, and look around. It hasn’t happened yet, but I chuckle at somebody getting it some day.
Love it.
Could even go with: 8 MHz WAN IPI had to think about it even after you pointed out it. The 8 as a standin for “it” wasn’t doing me any favors in getting it (assuming I’ve got it right at all). The first thought I had was “8Hz? That’d be absurdly slow!”
Make it a story. At some point change it to “megahertz”, then a while later “gigahertz” - see if anyone is paying attention.
Fortunately, not too many people are going to see it. I have two WAPs. The upper one is on the first floor and runs at just enough power to cover the 1st and 2nd floors. The 2nd WAP is in the basement.
Get much past 100 feet from my house and it’s very difficult to pick up. While some of my neighbors 4 or 5 doors down are broadcasting their WiFi at full power, one is even completely open. LOL
I have two WAPs
Omg, please reference the song if you ever change the SSIDs
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”?
Chad
Forgot to mention that I live in a red state too.
The “All my neighbors are lame” part makes sense now.
Love it
Do you have 2.4, 5, and guest on each?
One router (the gateway) has a 2.4 and a 5ghz radio. The other one (the relay), a 2.4 and three 5ghz radios.
Ohhh! Super cool!
I joined my neighbor. Her WiFi is called “gothcave”, so I named mine “nerdcave”
So you… *ahem* …caved in, then?
slow clap
That is too cute
My guess would be because you don’t have an “ebony hole” for them to enjoy?
RCMP Surveillance Moose #1812 here
A møøse once bit my sister
I tried so hard to get it to work, but the hardware I’m using only supports ASCII characters for SSID fields and I just couldn’t finagle it around.
Does she have a brother in law called Svenge?
My neighbours have CSIS Surveillance Van 3
Mine is named Projectile Vomiting Cyst Fluid.
Excellent
Ew
I had NETGEAR Gonna Give You Up before that if the gross out names don’t do it for 'ya :p
Best so far
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.
I’m very sad that story didn’t have a happy ending where they were both hit by a bus or got arrested in a drug sting.
I’m glad that was your old apartment friend.
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.
Since OpenWRT supports special characters in wifi names, mine is (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
It fucks with older wifi chips but most modern stuff connects just fine
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.
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.
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.
🫵
Wardriving
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.
a gram of brain power.
How much is that shit? You can snort it, right?
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
There’s literally websites where you can search for them.
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.
I haven’t seen collaboration like that but some good ones I’ve seen are ‘we can hear you having sex’ and ‘the gang gets WiFi’
Mine has been “WiFi Art Thou Romeo?” for 20+ years
