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Mine is "We don't have WiFi", so when guests ask what ours is called, I tell them then get to watch their face go through five different stages as they look around at all my tech...
Then my wife gets to explain to people what the joke is while I giggle like a 5 year old being tickled.
Pretty_Fly_4_a_WiFi
My SSID has always been "InfectedWithVirus".
Mine is Bathroom Camera #4
I live in a barrio and not sure how many people in my building can either speak or read English
I feel like that's asking for trouble. You can explain away "FBI surveillance van" because an ounce of common sense will tell you a government agency isn't likely to be so sloppy. But I could see a creepy Airbnb host who's just smart enough to be dangerous doing exactly this.
I used to live near someone who had "Mum use this one", so in OpenWRT I set up several networks with the names:
"Mum use THIS one!" "Mum Use This One" "MUM USE THIS ONE" "Mum use this one (real)" etc, etc
ours is "flamingos for sale" 🦩
I've carried over Silence of The LANs to multiple routers for so many years now. An old favourite.
"Tweakers Live Downstairs". They were right.
Mine used to be "Network Name? Why not Zoidberg?"
When I was living in an apartment complex for students, I saw "secret batcave wlan", so I changed mine to "wayne manor guests"
I named mine "skynet"
My network name used to be: DoYouKnowWhyIAmFat? Password: EverytimeIFuckYoMomSheGivesMeACookie#2024
I think I'm gonna have to name my next one "Jen this is the internet" or something similar
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.
It's literally just a packet with the ssid and related info in it, shouted into the void. It becomes an issue if you shout so much that other people's traffic is effectively jammed, otherwise, have fun.
Mine is named "Searching..."
It's caught a few friends out
How long did they wait?
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
Yes, we have the "fly" one exactly.
Here in my country I've seen many "Martin Router King"
I live on Martin Luther King street so it makes sense. 🙂
I'm keen on my own: NecromancerGlitterPonies
Mine is coincidentally named "Where's the ponies?" 🤣
IPintheshower
It hertz when ip
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.
OnlyLANs
One of mine is:
ITHertzWhenIP
I enjoy when ever I see a "Wu Tang lan"
That's one is my neighbors
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.
Just make sure to bring a mop and a bucket for that WAP
NSA Surveillance Vehicle #2
My Wi-Fi is named “Tell My Wi-Fi Love Her”
Tellmywifisaidhello
Tellmywifihadababyitsaboy
"Who was it, honey?" "It was Bob. They had a baby. It's a boy."
Man, commercials just used to live in your head like that. This was for 1-800 collect or one of the many, many copycats, right?
My 5GHz: Hot Signals In Your Area
My 2.4GHz: Mediocre Signals In Your Area
My neighbor's is "a series of tubes"
My guest wifi is “OpenWiFi” and the key is “iwillnotgiveyouthepassword”
troyandabedinthemodem
