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?
“Come naked and bring beer” “Crack Cave” “$name, 2. floor, 23, single”
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” 🦩
“Tweakers Live Downstairs”. They were right.
I named mine “skynet”
I’ve carried over Silence of The LANs to multiple routers for so many years now. An old favourite.
Mine used to be “Network Name? Why not Zoidberg?”
I read one where the wifi password at a bar was “YouGottaBuyADrinkFirst.” So… customers would ask for the password, then buy a drink, then ask for the password again and be like “oh… you crafty bastard.”
I think I’m gonna have to name my next one “Jen this is the internet” or something similar
When I was living in an apartment complex for students, I saw “secret batcave wlan”, so I changed mine to “wayne manor guests”
My network name used to be: DoYouKnowWhyIAmFat? Password: EverytimeIFuckYoMomSheGivesMeACookie#2024
My last one was ‘Insert WiFi Pun Here’ because I couldn’t think of a good one in the spot.
UncleTouchysNakedPuzzleBasement
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.
