I've carried over Silence of The LANs for so many years now.
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My last one was 'Insert WiFi Pun Here' because I couldn't think of a good one in the spot.
Every neighborhood has a FBI Surveillance Van and a Pretty Fly For A WiFi, just like every marina has a boat named Seas The Day and Wet Dream
I'm keen on my own: NecromancerGlitterPonies
Buddy had one of those barely FCC compliant wifi "debugger" boards, so for a while we actually had an entire armada of FBI surveillance vehicles, vans, and a helicopter on every 2.4ghz channel lol.
I dont know if fake SSID advertisements really impede actual stations, but it was pretty funny seeing 15 SSIDs coming from a single, almost thumbstick size board.
One of my neighbors is The_Booty_Warrior. My hypothesis is that's the pear-shaped Army chick that lives across the street, but it might be the balding middle aged family man two doors down.
My hypothesis is that’s the pear-shaped Army chick that lives across the street, but it might be the balding middle aged family man two doors down.
If you can wander around with kismet and a GPS sensor on a laptop, you can map the location of a WAP.
Mine is named "Searching..."
It's caught a few friends out
How long did they wait?
IPintheshower
It hertz when ip
HardCockSoftRock
Reference to the the hard rock casino
One of mine is:
ITHertzWhenIP
OnlyLANs
I enjoy when ever I see a "Wu Tang lan"
That's one is my neighbors
My son uses KittyPorn.
Meow 🙀
My guest wifi is “OpenWiFi” and the key is “iwillnotgiveyouthepassword”
IPandPoop
NSA Surveillance Vehicle #2
No Place Like 127.0.0.1
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like 127.0.0.1.
No place like 0177.0x1.
My neighbor's is "a series of tubes"
Great story inbound!
Named my router FBI Surveillance Van #3 back in 2015 or so. Thought nothing of it.
Next door neighbor told me the weed dealer at the end of the block was losing his mind, asking if neighbor had seen the van on his wi-fi! Best part, the weed man was just far enough away for the signal to fade in and out, like a roving vehicle. No one ever told him. 😆
EDIT: Long as I'm doing dumb tech stories...
Printed one of those "voice activated printer" signs for the company printer. Figured someone would have a giggle. Walking by, I caught my co-worker yelling, "PRINT! PRINT! Damn you! PRINT!" and giving the printer the evil eye. She was not amused. At all.
I had basically the same idea following a similar thread in a forum around 12 years ago.
Not FBI,but something similar from my country. Luckily I only used it for my physically seperated guest network(totally different connection)
... Thanks to Ubiquiti being asshats and not telling people about a zero day for months it got hacked and renamed into "FreeWeedAndFreeBeerIfyouringat{MyLastName}". They even replaced the background of the portal page with a carefully crafted picture explaining how they did it.
... I very much suspected the two CS students next door,especially as the range was shit and it was either them, someone with a really sophisticated array and (as you couldn't park in our street it would even be hard for a average wardriver to do so easily) and I very much rule out the 90 year old lady below us or the family who both were,well,rather non technical it seems. (He asked for help to set up his TV)
... As revenge,when one of them got a girlfriend who was as pretty as she was loud we set up a small open wifi on a mikrotik device which was just strong enough to go through one wall that was named "WeCanHearYouHavingSex" that lead to a fileserver that had a .wav in it with a five second proof of that and then Rick Ashley.
... He kindly asked for that being turned off before christmas when his parents would visit.
No way, thats exactly what i named my dads wifi when i set it up for him 😂
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TooFlyforAWIFI is mine
My 5GHz: Hot Signals In Your Area
My 2.4GHz: Mediocre Signals In Your Area
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My Wi-Fi is named “Tell My Wi-Fi Love Her”
Tellmywifisaidhello
Tell My WIFIm At Work
“Happy WiFi Happy Life”
troyandabedinthemodem
Mine is "The LAN Before Time"
I've also seen "LAN of the Lost"
Pretty Fly for a Wifi
My best friend named his "Bill Wi The Science Fi"
A friend used to have ItHurtsWhenIP
This was my phone hotspot for a while, but it was "ItHzWhenIP"
I've also seen ITHertzWANIP
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ICanHearYouHavingSex was in a friend’s building
If that was in eastern Germany 10 years ago...that was me and I had my reasons,see above.
My sister had me set the name for the Wi-Fi extender as "Papa John's Pizza and Abortions." For the record, my mother's side of the family are mostly hardcore Catholics.
(I think I mentioned this once before on a similar thread.)
Let me guess, the password is "YourLossIsOurSauce"
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