I found someone nearby using the default admin password. I thoughtfully logged in and changed that for them.
Our home WiFi was named, until quite recently, AFP Surveiilance Van #15 (Australian Federal Police). Then we had to get a new modem and the sods called it Optus 01. How boring.
A friend of mine called his “Galactica Actual”
That was very thoughtful of you.
OOOoooh, that’s even better!
Since a wifi signal can, in theory and probably in actual practice be used to track your movements within your own home and without access to the actual datastream, turning off the transmitter might not be a bad idea - depending on your level of paranoia.
edit: this is why I try to move as little as possible. It seems like the only sensible alternative.
Oh my God!!!
Another white van!!!
I saw one just like it pass me today on the highway!!!
And there’s one parked outside my office every day!!!
And there’s another one parked on my neighbor’s driveway every night!!!
Apparently, there a lots of FBI agents, all over the place.
Nearly every time I ride the Megabus between Kansas City and Chicago, there is some joker with that “FBI Surveillance Van #” SSID set up on his phone.
Next time I set one of these up I’ll name mine: ForAGoodTimeText[myphonenumber] and see how many responses I get
My router has two wi-fi networks, one of which is called ZombieGoose, and the other is TopSecretFBIVan. Considering that I live in London, the likelihood of encountering an FBI van must be quite small. I haven’t actually checked to see if anyone has tried to connect to this, though.
Some of these, if real, are pretty awesome:
http://www.studentbeans.com/worldweirdweb/a/wins/21-genius-wifi-network-names4160.html
If I was to do this again, “Pretty fly for a Wi-fi” would be near the top of my list!
Very funny.
Of course, the difference between all those other white vans and this one was that this one tagged itself as “FBI surveillance van #3”. Before I started this thread I didn’t know that this was some sort of running gag and just attributed it to another in a long line of FBI fuck-ups.
My home network used to be Skynet. Then I changed it to FBI surveillance van #7
I think if you really want to inspire fear you’d want to name it “RIAA Surv Van #4295”
Dr. Forbin might be a good one. Or WOPR. Maybe Cyberdyne Industries.
If I could I’d change it to that alien one from Doctor Who. But I suspect that non-standard alphabets are not supported.
What makes you think the Wi-Fi was coming from that van, or from any vehicle?
I am going to name our new QOS channel this.
Thanks.
My wifi is named PEBKAC. I doubt that any of my neighbors get it.
I used to know a guy who would open up his laptop when he was driving around (as a passenger) and would try to connect to any open networks he could find. Then he would look for printers, and if he found one he would print out a page with instructions on how to secure their wifi.
I’ve heard of people using “VIRUS INFECTED WIFI” and “ALL TRAFFIC MONITORED” as names to keep people out.
I also heard of someone naming his something like “I dare you to hack this” and came back a few days later to find that the name had been changed to “challenge accepted”. Not sure how true that one is since it’s one of those FOAF stories.
As if Adama would ever let you network two computers on his ship.
“HOWTO: Make a Doctor Who “Bells of St John” Style WiFi Name” HOWTO: Make a Doctor Who “Bells of St John” Style WiFi Name – Terence Eden’s Blog
I love it. I’m the one who introduced the term “Pebcak error” at my workplace. They already knew about the ID-10-T errors.
I think I’ll name my next wifi network Fnord just because.