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?
Element of surprise. It does, in fact, have Internet
Don’t share all your WiFi SSIDs my dude. Its very common to be able to find someone’s likely location based on all the network names. Even Google and Apple use this technique instead of relying on GPS.
Come hang with me and Smith and Wesson!
What you’re describing is called Wardriving, I’ve done it and used it to track/confirm someone’s location
Nice to see a fellow WoT enjoyer among your neighbors.
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Mine is Silence of the LANs
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.
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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.
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.
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 gram of brain power.
How much is that shit? You can snort it, right?
I had one once “FBI Surveillance Van 7” and the neighbors renamed to “CIA Underground Bunker” and “International War Criminal”
The only network I can see is my own. But as soon as the bears get wifi we’ll engage in some goofy hilariousness!
“This wifi is too fast.”
PRÓBA 5G GDAŃSK 621% MOCY
which means
5G TEST GDAŃSK 621% POWER
Ah yes, the absolutely random number 621
I used to have ‘FBI Van 21’ back in the 2010s but haven’t really cared in recent years
I’m in IT and use my hotspot as an internet umbrella for troubleshooting - my hotspot name is “FBI Surveillance Van”. (I also carry a usb-c to eth adapter for those stubborn hardline devices)
There are five FBI Surveillance Vans in my range y’all need to get a new joke.
That’s weird though, now there’s six…
Sorry, FBI joke innovation is halted. New jokes are on ICE
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 once had a wifi that had as many character as as I could fit from this sequence of long digits that Data reads out as Picard but I goofed. Someone else changed their wifi to “The 3 is supposed to be a C”
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?
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.
The WiFi hotspot on my phone is called “Initializing…”
In my neighborhood multiple people still have unsecure printers so the list always has more than one HP-Setup{numbers}.
Just a note since google maps your SSID: To opt out, change the SSID (name) of your Wi-Fi access point (your wireless network name) so that it ends with “_nomap.” For example, if your SSID is “12345,” you would change it to “12345_nomap.”
And probably not a good idea to publish your SSID if you don’t want your location known because of things like this https://wigle.net/
Jesus H. Christ that’s insane.
Sorry but fuck Google.
No need to be sorry - with a username like yours I’d be disappointed if you didn’t say it.
I thought “eduroam” was a pretty funny name
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”
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.
