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?

  • spacesatan@leminal.spaceEnglish
    61·
    7 days 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’

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    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
      26·
      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.

  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
    42·
    8 days ago

    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.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      14·
      8 days ago

      I still have a lot of love for 2.4GHz just because of how much farther the signal reaches than 5GHz. Mediocre only in the sense that it’s slower and that there’s too many avenues of potential interference (microwaves, other 2.4GHz devices clogging the spectrum).

  • chillpanzee@lemmy.mlEnglish
    30·
    8 days ago

    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.”

  • RattlerSix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    8 days ago

    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