Ah the humble service set identifier! It seems to have grown from a simple way for access points to identify themselves to potential clients to a little public bulletin board for airing one’s grievances toward noisy neighbors or showcasing one’s wit.

What notable SSIDs have you run into out in the wild or created yourself?

  • ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    Once, in vacation, I found a WiFi named “Bob Marley”. I don’t know anything about Bob Marley, I hate reggae so I’m not interested but I know “No woman no cry” because we learned it at school. So here I was typing “nowomannocry” as password and guess what, I was logged in. 😂

    So it is not the SSID in itself which was fun but I figured it was not too unrelated to your question. 😅

  • JGrffn@lemmy.world
    11·
    7 days ago

    For the longest time I had “FBI Van” and “NSA Van” for my 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands respectively. 0 cool stories with that scheme, until I changed the 5ghz one to “Ganon’s Tower” and a neighbor eventually joined me and named his wifi “Hyrule Castle”. We kept that for a few years until the neighbor moved, I believe

  • spacesatan@leminal.spaceEnglish
    61·
    1 hour ago

    When I did van life for a while my hotspot was FBI Surveilled Van.

    Albuquerque has a major street named Juan Tabo and every time I drove past I wondered who that was, after a dozen times I finally remembered to look it up when I got home and found out that it was just some non-noteworthy guy lost to time. Network became ‘discount Juan Tabo lookalike’.

    Oh yeah, at my current laundromat there are like 6 networks pretending to be the laundromat’s free wifi for the sake of confusion.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75·
    8 days ago

    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.

    • philpo@feddit.org
      31·
      8 days ago

      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.