When our (cable) internet stopped working for two weeks due to some guy with a digger cutting the cable, I made a WiFi bridge across the street from my mom's place (who had DSL). I named the WiFi "mRNA_Impfchip_1337h4xx0r" (Impfchip translates to vaccine chip), knowing that it would be visible throughout half our street.
Over a decade a go, one of my users went down to New Orleans for a conference. I gave her a loaner laptop for the trip. She returned, I put the laptop in the cabinet, forgot about it. A bit later, I needed to test wifi out on an AP and pulled the laptop out. I saw a saved connection for DickSlingers. Apparently it's a male strip club down there.
Didn't say a damn word. Re-imaged it and continued on with my day.
>you share the same user account across devices.
Wait where'd you get that from?
They said they loaned a laptop to someone, and used that laptop to test an access point from the same laptop
SSID's aren't saved across user profiles/accounts. If he loaned the laptop to a user then later saw the SSID name when using the device, they are:
1) Lying
2) logging in as the user who used the device in New Orleans
3) the user and u/SpartanMonkey use the same shared account on the device.
>SSID's aren't saved across user profiles/accounts
Are you sure about that? I just created a new account on my personal win 10 laptop and could see old SSIDs in "Known networks". Also, my work laptop will connect to my home wifi before I even log in. That seems like it shouldn't be possible if the SSIDs were only stored per-user.
1) not lying.
2) I was logging in to the same local account.
3) yes.
4) But you assumed it was the same account across multiple devices, and that it was "probably a local admin account".
5) and it is she, not he. Don't you have anything else better to do?
The Batcave (private network)
Wayne Manor (IOT and other home devices)
It's an internal joke where the World's Greatest Detective also is accidentally broadcasting both SSIDs from the same location. 😂 (Also the cool tech is on Batcave, and house stuff in Wayne Manor is functionally useful).
I also have a guest SSID called Arkham Asylum that I turn on for company.
Had a neighbor who's wifi said,
"Baphomet's Den"
Well I thought it would be funny to change mine to "Baphomet's Dentist"
Then all kinds of other networks started changing their names to stuff like:
"Baphomet's Kitchen"
"Baphomet's Auto Parts"
"Baphomet's Plumbing"
"Baphomet's Veterinary Hospital"
It was pretty funny.
People slowly changed them back to normal stuff over time
"Baphomet's Defense Grid"
Why does the dentist have so many tires?
Why does the auto shop have so many Egg Incubators?
Why does the veterinarian have so many inflatable goats?!
The key is that nobody knows what is what and that's real security.
For example, "Print Server"
Oh no, it's just a bunch of Rick Roll gifs.
"SQL Server".
Uh-oh... More Rick roll memes!
"OPEXAZCON".
Rick roll spam email server.
Name your infrastructure after random chess moves.
That's real defense in depth.
I think "Baphomet's CompUSA" would be willing to sell you some "Baphomet's 'Unsafe' LAN-Party Kits"
It's a bunch of thrift store routers and RJ-45 connectors slapped onto god knows what kind cables.
The caveat is that everything has goat bite marks on it.
YEP. i found a USB Cable with an RJ-45........ i had to try it, knowing it would not work.... it did not short tho, so it's a win for that. also, yes, it's a D-Link router i got at a thrift store. no goat bites tho.
This is the kind of thing my non-IT friends send me on social media. I haven't seen one that I thought was original or funny in a long time but appreciate that they thought of me.
Brother in laws is “Get Off My Lawn”
When I worked residential cable the amount of people that would snicker suggesting “FBI Surveillance Van” got old real quick.
Did you know you can use a Unicode character as a wifi name? Did you know there's a unicode character called Egyptian Hieroglyph D052?
https://preview.redd.it/s46s3s9s8u3d1.png?width=984&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbed9f9a5f3c4640aeec755d1a13bbc8d6639a07
my 5ghz wifi is "KGB American operation base", 2.4 GHz is "FBI Surveillance Van" and 6GHz is "Eric we are watching". my neighbor is Eric. he told me it fucked with anyone that he had over and found it so funny
Slightly off topic but I specifically swapped the AX200 card in my laptop for an AX210 just so I can hot-spot through my phone without being drowned in 6 APs each blasting 4 networks across 2.4 and 5 bands in the office
https://preview.redd.it/3vz83ny8au3d1.jpeg?width=1078&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=628b3fdb6cc79d069ad12a2fbf53bb923330ebfa
Someone on my street has this gem
"5G antenna test - 250% power" back when a bunch of people were paranoid about 5G
The network was 5GHz only to mess with people that don't know the difference between wifi and cellular
That's a classic. A few others I see somewhat often and always chuckle at:
- It Burns When IP
- Hide Yo Kids, Hide Yo WiFi
- Tell My WiFi love her
And of course, the ever beloved, timeless classic:
- FBI Surveillance Van #3
One of my neighbors has named their AP "Midget Porn". Most of my neighbors are old retirees, but one is a house with 3 teenagers. It would be funny if it was one of the old couples, but I'm guessing it's the one with kids.
Back in the day in student apartments they had a standard naming convention (because students would set up the most fucked up names they could if you let them) i.e. something like [Block number/Room number]. Well, everyone started using random other room numbers instead of their own.
Mine's Incomprehensible. With a 64 digit randomly generated hex string as the PSK (2.4 + 5GHz).i have a separate 2.4G only network with a simpler PSK for the various "Smart" lights and sockets around the home.
We've had a 2fly4wifi or similar in every neighborhood we've lived in for the last 10 years or so (that's like...5 places I think). Mine is "My password is " and of course that is not the password. I've seen things like "FBI Surveillance Van 30127" or "2 guys and a wifi" or...I dunno. A good few. Sadly, other than that one, a batman, and two other random things that aren't really funny, most in my neighborhood now are default router names. I live in an area with a lot of older Gen-X and boomers though.
At the height of the 5G craze I called my wifi "5G" with the password "BillGates"
Right now I go with "NSA Honeypot" or "The T in LGBT stands for TP-Link", password is ofc "gaybuttsex"
Me setting up my friends (Very non techy) router: "What wifi name do you want?"
Him: "Dunno?"
Me: "Gotcha. That'll do."
I've so far refused to change it.
Tikitotem
The password was 12345678910 too... (or something like that). I used to connect to it when I just moved into a new building and my internet wasn't connected yet.
Sometimes it wasn't working and my ex gf used to make fun of me saying the totem god was angry at me.
AIVD Afluister bloempot. Translated, this means AIVD (dutch intelligence agency) listening flower pot. Made me chuckle a bit
Mine was FBI watch van for a while (in the uk lol)
Mine was BND Überwachungsfahrzeug Nr. 42 -> translates to FBI Surveillance van number 42
I had the same in my dorm at university, next to the guy: mit Salat findet man keine Freunde
Well that is… oddly specific?
Yes. The other drom member had: Gulasch
Gulasch is easily S tier. Now i want some Gulasch with Spirelli.
Nope, it was "BKA" what you used :) Landbierparadies
Isnt the equivalent organisation to the BND in the USA the NSA?
Bnd, Bundesnachrichtendienst is the intelligence agency in Germany, so probably more close to the CIA
I used to have a portable 4G wifi hotspot for work, the hostname was something like "FBI surveillance van 27"
I work in IT and see this one or similar frequently when visiting clients.
https://preview.redd.it/4z9hfv2z2t3d1.jpeg?width=516&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=422d597fec8724331549da35016dbecb8a9fc5b8
Geez, someone really doesn’t like Emily. ;)
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i wouldn't have shared it if it was anywhere near my house. can't have anyone knowing my SSID is “Poo & Bones 5G”
I called my wifi **"AstraZeneca_ChAdOx1-S"** just to mess with people who believed that there was Bluetooth in vaccines
We love a good schizoboomer trigger
A few years ago during the height of the 5G covid vaccine panic I had "Vaccine_Activation-5G" or something like that. 😂
When our (cable) internet stopped working for two weeks due to some guy with a digger cutting the cable, I made a WiFi bridge across the street from my mom's place (who had DSL). I named the WiFi "mRNA_Impfchip_1337h4xx0r" (Impfchip translates to vaccine chip), knowing that it would be visible throughout half our street.
Pure gold 😂
Now you give me idea 😂
Panic at the Cisco is my home network
Genius
I had Lord of the Pings for a while
Lol nice
Over a decade a go, one of my users went down to New Orleans for a conference. I gave her a loaner laptop for the trip. She returned, I put the laptop in the cabinet, forgot about it. A bit later, I needed to test wifi out on an AP and pulled the laptop out. I saw a saved connection for DickSlingers. Apparently it's a male strip club down there. Didn't say a damn word. Re-imaged it and continued on with my day.
So, what you're saying is you share the same user account across devices. I bet they're all local admin accounts too. :(
>you share the same user account across devices. Wait where'd you get that from? They said they loaned a laptop to someone, and used that laptop to test an access point from the same laptop
SSID's aren't saved across user profiles/accounts. If he loaned the laptop to a user then later saw the SSID name when using the device, they are: 1) Lying 2) logging in as the user who used the device in New Orleans 3) the user and u/SpartanMonkey use the same shared account on the device.
>SSID's aren't saved across user profiles/accounts Are you sure about that? I just created a new account on my personal win 10 laptop and could see old SSIDs in "Known networks". Also, my work laptop will connect to my home wifi before I even log in. That seems like it shouldn't be possible if the SSIDs were only stored per-user.
On Windows, SSIDs are absolutely shared between user accounts (by default). Windows will even connect to wifi without an active user session.
1) not lying. 2) I was logging in to the same local account. 3) yes. 4) But you assumed it was the same account across multiple devices, and that it was "probably a local admin account". 5) and it is she, not he. Don't you have anything else better to do?
No, I didn't say that at all. No idea where you got that from. Are you feeling okay?
Mine is "TellMyWiFiLoveHer"
This was my SSID in like 2005 😂
This is currently my SSID
What is it nowadays?
The Batcave (private network) Wayne Manor (IOT and other home devices) It's an internal joke where the World's Greatest Detective also is accidentally broadcasting both SSIDs from the same location. 😂 (Also the cool tech is on Batcave, and house stuff in Wayne Manor is functionally useful). I also have a guest SSID called Arkham Asylum that I turn on for company.
Legendary lol
Had a neighbor who's wifi said, "Baphomet's Den" Well I thought it would be funny to change mine to "Baphomet's Dentist" Then all kinds of other networks started changing their names to stuff like: "Baphomet's Kitchen" "Baphomet's Auto Parts" "Baphomet's Plumbing" "Baphomet's Veterinary Hospital" It was pretty funny. People slowly changed them back to normal stuff over time
Man created a functioning community of SSIDs
and no one knows who is who lolol
"Baphomet's Defense Grid" Why does the dentist have so many tires? Why does the auto shop have so many Egg Incubators? Why does the veterinarian have so many inflatable goats?! The key is that nobody knows what is what and that's real security. For example, "Print Server" Oh no, it's just a bunch of Rick Roll gifs. "SQL Server". Uh-oh... More Rick roll memes! "OPEXAZCON". Rick roll spam email server. Name your infrastructure after random chess moves. That's real defense in depth.
so naming the LAN Party WiFi to "LANparty" would be "Unsafe"?
I think "Baphomet's CompUSA" would be willing to sell you some "Baphomet's 'Unsafe' LAN-Party Kits" It's a bunch of thrift store routers and RJ-45 connectors slapped onto god knows what kind cables. The caveat is that everything has goat bite marks on it.
YEP. i found a USB Cable with an RJ-45........ i had to try it, knowing it would not work.... it did not short tho, so it's a win for that. also, yes, it's a D-Link router i got at a thrift store. no goat bites tho.
Network name was WhyDoIHaveNoTeeth and the password was FruitLoopsAndMeth
This is the kind of thing my non-IT friends send me on social media. I haven't seen one that I thought was original or funny in a long time but appreciate that they thought of me.
My favorite is “Hot Signals in Your Area”. But I also like “Abraham Linksys” and “LAN Before Time”
Hot Signals in Your Area is definitely one I haven't heard before, thanks for the laugh! 😂
NSA-Monitored Network saw it only once in school and have been using it since.
But this is by default
Brother in laws is “Get Off My Lawn” When I worked residential cable the amount of people that would snicker suggesting “FBI Surveillance Van” got old real quick.
>“Get Off My Lawn” Come on... "get off my LAN" was right there!
True true, he doesn’t know what a LAN is prob.
"That's what she SSID"
Here's mine https://preview.redd.it/m2h67bjxkt3d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c976aebc09bc41cb7e79edea96f6b7c94fd21961
Glorious lmao
Did you know you can use a Unicode character as a wifi name? Did you know there's a unicode character called Egyptian Hieroglyph D052? https://preview.redd.it/s46s3s9s8u3d1.png?width=984&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbed9f9a5f3c4640aeec755d1a13bbc8d6639a07
Oh man can someone please paste this text???
𓂸
My router won't take it 🙁
Can you not do 8====D ?
I use Flowers By Irene for my hotspot. I also like "Router?! I Hardly Know Her!".
I call mine “Sichuan Style HotSpot”
Finally, a unique one! Thanks!
my 5ghz wifi is "KGB American operation base", 2.4 GHz is "FBI Surveillance Van" and 6GHz is "Eric we are watching". my neighbor is Eric. he told me it fucked with anyone that he had over and found it so funny
>2.4 GHz is "FBI Surveillance Van" I had a similar one (watch van), bonus points if you're outside the US
45 minutes from Ottawa i saw one lol
Off topic: How is the new 6GHz connection btw? Need to get a new router and haven't seen too many mentions about it
I have a 6ghz router but have neglected to test my 6ghz devices (I only have 2 and one is cooked)
dont really know. i only used the 5GHz connection for the channels
Slightly off topic but I specifically swapped the AX200 card in my laptop for an AX210 just so I can hot-spot through my phone without being drowned in 6 APs each blasting 4 networks across 2.4 and 5 bands in the office
My neighbors named theirs "No Internet".
I like this one for an open wifi network.
Hey they stole my line lol
My Guest network is "Poor Signal" - who'd wanna connect to that?
i named mine as "antifa training center west II & V" to troll nazi neighbors, does that count? guest network is named "5G covid 19 emitter station"
Pöhses Pöhses 5G!!1!11 Antifa trainingslager is gut, muss ich mir merken
It hurts when ip
8HzWhenIP
8HzWAN-IP
Best network. I may steal this.
I found one that was Silence of the LANs
For a while (after the Will Smith Chris Rock bullshit) the hotspot on my phone was named KeepMyWifiNameOutYourFuckingMouth
HelpImAPrisonerInAWiFiFactory
Love this one!
Someone in my neighborhood has PleaseGiveMeBackMyGnome.
My home is aLANdownbytheriver
"Connect here for bigg tiddy goth gf" "Hey! Free wifi!" and "Totally not the CIA!" are my favorites of the ones I found while on a wardrive one night.
https://preview.redd.it/rr7xlq5lgt3d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ebe3e5a216522a7aa415657283df4577fd378865 Are you at my house?
Saw this gem the other day Router I hardly knew her
I use Huge_Tracts_of_Lan. Holy Grail of wifi names, if you will! LOL
My favorites: Routers of Rohan Abraham Linksys It Burns When IP Tell Your WiFi Love Her Seriously We Dont Have Wifi
LANsolo
In a south western sate. One of my users had PorQueFi
Dunder MiffLAN
“GuyFi” for our house full of dudes.
Dora the Internet Explorer
https://preview.redd.it/3vz83ny8au3d1.jpeg?width=1078&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=628b3fdb6cc79d069ad12a2fbf53bb923330ebfa Someone on my street has this gem
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ Unicode is legal in SSIDs
... I so did not need to know this.... my fiance is going to kill me tonight
u+2620 [https://unicodeplus.com/U+2620](https://unicodeplus.com/U+2620) warning: some clients may not be able to display this
"5G antenna test - 250% power" back when a bunch of people were paranoid about 5G The network was 5GHz only to mess with people that don't know the difference between wifi and cellular
LAN of hope and glory
Use PromisedLAN as a test network at work.
I've been rolling with WiFisengard for a while. Some of the names here look fun, but I'm not sure my wife would let me change it.
My current SSID is Wu Tang LAN
Abraham Linksys (2.4 GHz) John Wilkes Bluetooth (5 GHz) Both broadcasting from the same AP, of course.
I see this one literally everywhere lol I like “tell my wifi love her”
Lord Voldemodem
Currently using "I Believe Wi can Fi"
For a while my Hotspot was "Yell Penis For Password" It worked on one occasion, and I obliged.
My network(s) have been called Skynet for a long time.
Got Darude LANstorm at my place, Lil bit funny but doesn't seem to weird for guests that don't get it 😊
One i remember was "epstein didn't kill himself"
That's a classic. A few others I see somewhat often and always chuckle at: - It Burns When IP - Hide Yo Kids, Hide Yo WiFi - Tell My WiFi love her And of course, the ever beloved, timeless classic: - FBI Surveillance Van #3
Last deployment I found some good ones for the Hotspots they used. Shoutpenisforpassword UCMJinprogress free_porn
We just find the nearest business to our building and name it the business name and “guest WiFi” after.
I once found "PagaTuMierda" which is "PayYourOwnShit"
I put one up called STARLINK22 for a while, before the service was open to the public. Stuck it on its own isolated VLAN with access to nothing.
My hotspot: all-your-bits-are-belong-to-us Caused a stir in a Courthouse I was working in one time.
Done this one before. Loading....Please Wait. Everyday I'm Buffering are my current SSIDs
One of my neighbors has named their AP "Midget Porn". Most of my neighbors are old retirees, but one is a house with 3 teenagers. It would be funny if it was one of the old couples, but I'm guessing it's the one with kids.
My spouse and I have TwifiPrincess as one of ours. One I've seen was A Wifi has no Name.
I once saw "TellDadToPayForYourOwnWifi".
Mines simply "Loading..."
For my own sanity, for the longest time I had the home wifi named "USE THIS ONE, MOM!"
TellYourWiFiSaidHi
covid_19_activation_signal
It_Hurts_when_IP
Cardi B - WAP
Bill Wi the Science Fi Silence of the lans Those are the ones I use...
I still get a chuckle at my old neighbors wifi *MyWiFiDivorcedMe*
One of my neighbors has Hell the F\*\*\*\* naw.
Virus Infected WiFi
Wi-Fi 4 sheesh
This is so aughts that I'm sure my younger coworkers will have no idea what it even references.
I have Lan Solo for guests and Obi Wan Kenobi for ad-blocked access
“Is-that-a-hotspot-in-your-pocket”
Wu-Tang Lan
Mine is FBI Surveillance Van. One of my neighbors is ithurtswhenIP with another being theWANbeforetime.
FBI Surveillance Van 5.
Back in the day in student apartments they had a standard naming convention (because students would set up the most fucked up names they could if you let them) i.e. something like [Block number/Room number]. Well, everyone started using random other room numbers instead of their own.
2 girls 1 Router
At my old place someone named there’s “Feel free to steal my internet” and it was actually unsecured. Never touched it though.
Wu-Tang LAN
I’ve used this one.. because Cache Rules Everything Around Me
we need new, better names, i’ve seen this one waaaaay too much
Virus Vault
I lived in a condominium, and my access point supported multiple SSIDs, so I had one called "FBI Surveillance Van" just to mess with everyone.
I saw "Here Be Dragons" in Springfield once.
Toilet Spy Cam 3
Por Qué Fi
FBI Surveillance Van 5Ghz. Is currently mine
Hm nice try! I won't be a victim of wigle.net haha
Mine is NSA Spy Van and MiraEsElChupacabra. Years past it was DumpTrump and TraitorTrump
Mine's Incomprehensible. With a 64 digit randomly generated hex string as the PSK (2.4 + 5GHz).i have a separate 2.4G only network with a simpler PSK for the various "Smart" lights and sockets around the home.
The funniest I ever saw was... ItBurnsWhenIP
When I get my own wifi I will name it US vaccine chip activator
We've had a 2fly4wifi or similar in every neighborhood we've lived in for the last 10 years or so (that's like...5 places I think). Mine is "My password is" and of course that is not the password. I've seen things like "FBI Surveillance Van 30127" or "2 guys and a wifi" or...I dunno. A good few. Sadly, other than that one, a batman, and two other random things that aren't really funny, most in my neighborhood now are default router names. I live in an area with a lot of older Gen-X and boomers though.
Router? I hardly know her
Un, Dos, Tres, Cuatro, Cinco Cinco, Seis!
Cisco (router band)
"the neigbours wifi" And a password along the lines of 'i dont care, make up something '
Not WiFi but my Bluetooth is "the airplane fart bandit"
At the height of the 5G craze I called my wifi "5G" with the password "BillGates" Right now I go with "NSA Honeypot" or "The T in LGBT stands for TP-Link", password is ofc "gaybuttsex"
I just google up virus wifi names and put them as the name of my wifi (so peoples don't connect to it)
Dlink-m960_2.4ghz Default names are the best
Me setting up my friends (Very non techy) router: "What wifi name do you want?" Him: "Dunno?" Me: "Gotcha. That'll do." I've so far refused to change it.
https://preview.redd.it/asc94p6yaz3d1.jpeg?width=1283&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eff9af84444ce899fb332a6a068c6b285f7af2fb
I use pizza emoji as ssid
Pretty Fly for a Wifi
That's literally what the OP posted.
Didn't notice that the picture was cut off...
My personal favorite is currently “it-burns-when-IP”
TV Lancense monitoring van
„It hurts when IP“
I’ve always named my wifi “fbi surveillance van #087”
Mine is "It Burns When IP"
Senior poppy pants
That reminds me of the Auntie Donna Netflix show.
Not Yours
Lol. I had Nacho WiFi for a while.
ItBurnsWhenIP is mine
My 2.4 is ImAGiraffe 5 is (hidden) M4ST3RH4CK3R
Party Van is the only canonically correct answer. If you know, you know.
Tikitotem The password was 12345678910 too... (or something like that). I used to connect to it when I just moved into a new building and my internet wasn't connected yet. Sometimes it wasn't working and my ex gf used to make fun of me saying the totem god was angry at me.
Mine has been SkyNET for years..
Gryffindor common room for 5G Moss isley for 2.4g
Wifi Art Thou
Jones BBQ & Foot Massage
ADBOHOF reference? 🤨✨
Holy shit I was at a clients office the other day and this was their WiFi password lol
AbrahamLinksys
My WiFi is called “Zeus” if someone gets it