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?
Mine is Silence of the LANs
I had one once “FBI Surveillance Van 7” and the neighbors renamed to “CIA Underground Bunker” and “International War Criminal”
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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PRÓBA 5G GDAŃSK 621% MOCY
which means
5G TEST GDAŃSK 621% POWER
Obi W-Lan Kenobi is mine
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.”
I came up with: WI FI INdER NET ROOTE eRWÄLAN While I couldn’t sleep on night. It only makes sense in German. I don’t use it though cause I’m not sure if it’s racist.
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
My wifi name has been “Not yours” for 12 years
Be safe guys. Because of SSID location mapping services it’s possible to pinpoint the location of many people in this thread.
Wardriving
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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.
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 gram of brain power.
How much is that shit? You can snort it, right?
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”
Yeah, there are always some. I use a “hidden” network and don’t broadcast my SSID so I keep it simple and easy to enter in on any device. Had a neighbor in the past who was nice enough and I let him use my wifi but then I turned into his tech support, fuck that. If the neighbors don’t see my broadcasting they won’t ask. Besides I keep as much as I can hardwired, it’s just better.
I thought “eduroam” was a pretty funny name
I have a boring Wifi name and everyone around too, but this reminds me that I was once sitting on the train and was watching a video with bluetooth headphones in and texting with my friends and some jerk constantly tried to connect to my phone via bluetooth. A pop up window constantly asked me if I wanted to connect to this other guy’s phone and since I was texting I came close to misclicking on ‘yes’ more than once. Then I renamed my phone to FuckOff and he got the message, since then all my phones are called FuckOff.
