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?
Bill Wi the Science Fi
Wu Tang LAN
Pretty Fly for a Wifi
Uncle Touchy’s Puzzle Basement
Samsung Smart Vibrator
This LAN Is My LAN_5G
This LAN Is Your LAN_2.4G
I knew someone who used Unicode glyphs to name their wifi the following string: ┓┏ 凵 =╱⊿┌┬┐
It was a reference to a Doctor Who episode in which people were getting zapped by the monster of the week after connecting to a mysterious alien wifi network.
I named mine: MomclickhereforInternet
Dobby is a TERF - right next to the Harry Potter gift shop in Edinburgh
Terf?
Congratulations on being one of today’s lucky 10,000
TERF - Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist
A name that some bigots have given themselves to appear presentable, because they’re saying they’re “protecting women” from a minority group that makes up less than 1% of the population (Trans People.) They’re basically a bigoted hate group, and/or a cult.
JK Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, famously is one of them, and funnels a lot of her money into that hate group. Dobby is one of her characters.
At one of the CeX I go to, the WiFi is called something like “SafeCeX”
Ours has been “hide yo kids hide yo wifi” for about 15 years probably.
I use Abraham Linksys, even now that I’ve moved on from Linksys routers (mostly too lazy to update all my IoT devices).
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.
And the password is: “TheCodeisontheBackoftheRouter1”
I’ve encountered the password “itsonthefridge”
Pretty_Fly_4_a_WiFi
- “Come naked and bring beer”
- “Crack Cave”
- “$name, 2. floor, 23, single”
My SSID has always been “InfectedWithVirus”.
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.
Nah. Don’t be daft
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” 🦩
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.”
