My WiFi is ‘Secret Rebel Base’.

My neighbours have added ‘Jabba the Hub’, ‘Obi Lan Kenobi’, and ‘Red WiFi-ve Standing By’. This makes me happy.

Anyone else live in a neighbourhood that embraces this kind of WiFi silliness?

  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    11 hours ago

    Because of SSID location mapping

    People really out there mapping SSID’s? I fail to understand how that data is at all valuable, changing an SSID takes seconds and a gram of brain power.

    • DacoTaco@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Oh thats easy, android uses ( or at least used it in the past ) these services for location.
      Android will first try gps to get your location. However, gps needs direct connection to a satellite and can easily be either turned off or not working correctly.
      It then tries to triangulate your location using cell towers and their location, which gives a rough estimate on your location.
      Then it scans SSID’s that are near to hone down some more on your location, and its this step that needs that data.

      Edit: it used to also scan, and save, SSID names with a rough estimate location to fill and update this database. I say used to, cause thats how it worked circa 2009, so idk how it works nowadays