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?
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.
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.
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’ve carried over Silence of The LANs to multiple routers for so many years now. An old favourite.
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.”
“Tweakers Live Downstairs”. They were right.
Mine used to be “Network Name? Why not Zoidberg?”
When I was living in an apartment complex for students, I saw “secret batcave wlan”, so I changed mine to “wayne manor guests”
My network name used to be: DoYouKnowWhyIAmFat? Password: EverytimeIFuckYoMomSheGivesMeACookie#2024
I named mine “skynet”
