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?

  • philpo@feddit.org
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    3 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.