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On a work trip in the mid 2010s. We were staying at a hotel located near FB/Meta HQ in Menlo Park.

Once I was in for the night, I went looking for WiFi and then I saw it:

SSID HideYoKidsHideYoWiFi

All my neighbors are lame but I have two routers, giving me a total of six SSIDs to play with. So I have wifi names like "Trump Fucks Kids", "Charlie Kirk was a Literal Nazi", and "Where are the Epstein Files"?

Be safe guys. Because of SSID location mapping services it's possible to pinpoint the location of many people in this thread.

I have my 2.4 network named IsThisTheKrustyKrab and my 5 network named WutangLAN.

One neighbor joined in with Winternet is Coming, the other called theirs Childish Name.

I have "The Internet" and "Honeypot"

My network is named "Hot Signals In Your Area". It used to be "Routers of the Lost Ark". My guest network is "Guesty McGuestface"

Unfortunately, no one else in my building has anything creative.

I've seen "Leader Desslock", "NSA_Hotspot", "Wicked Evil Jowls". In college someone in my dorm named their's "Business Isn't a Real Major"

Opening up wifi list at every DefCon I've been to:

"Never gonna give you up"

"Never gonna say goodbye "

"Never gonna run around "

"And desert you"

I know a guy in college whose dorm ended up with a wifi naming theme. Someone (highly suspected to be the passive aggressive super religious fundie on the floor above) changed their wifi name to "Stop, we can all hear you having sex"

So naturally, someone changed theirs to 'I can hear you NOT having sex'

at that point it was on lol.

• TheLanBeforeTime
• 2CatNoProblems
• WUTSTHEWIFIPASSWORD
• Networking 925
• FBISurveillancevan

mine is: Let the FOSS be with you

Sadly in my apartment complex they seem to all use the default name given by the router (like Carrier-randomnumbers).

I have a friend who named his WiFi "Connecting..." which is diabolical

I joined my neighbor. Her WiFi is called "gothcave", so I named mine "nerdcave"

Mine is: ITHertzWhenIP

It’s not super creative but I named my mom’s network “The Internet” so when she asks for help with getting online I can ask if she’s tried connecting to The Internet.

I went with it_hertz_when_IP but have yet to see anyone with similar naming...

I had a bunch of Trek Nerds living near me it seems:

Enterprise-D

Borg Cube

Deep Space Nine

Federation Satelite or something

It was wild

Not Spying On You

Covert NSA Surveillance

I Got Hacked

Connect to AOL

Skynet Mobile Operations

We Didn't Start the Firewall

No community in jokes, but mine used to be "MailOrderWifi" and I had a neighbor who's wifi name was "OnlyGaysStealWifi" with no password

Mine is BillWitheScienceFi

One of my friend's neighbors named their wifi "is this the Krusty Krab?"

Of course he named his, "no, this is Patrick"

Abraham Linksys

John Wilkes Bluetooth

Wu Tang LAN

Don’t answer; script kiddies can find out where you live based on these names.

Just a note since google maps your SSID: To opt out, change the SSID (name) of your Wi-Fi access point (your wireless network name) so that it ends with "_nomap." For example, if your SSID is "12345," you would change it to "12345_nomap."

And probably not a good idea to publish your SSID if you don't want your location known because of things like this https://wigle.net/

Years ago my local firefighters were setting up a wifi setup that went across the town for them to use, so we named our wifi after theirs, about a week later we get a knock on the door asking us to change it because the firefighters around me couldn't connect to their network.

Not sure how they found out it was us, I think someone ratted us out.

Years ago I had "pantomiming_suicide" and someone created one about calling the suicide hotline. It's actually a Mormon reference that I just thought would make a funny name but I can see how that wasn't obvious now.

Neighbors at my old apartment had KKK as their network name. They were huge pieces of shit who knew I could hear everything through the walls, so they would have entire conversations about me with slurs every other word. They were also armed, and talked about their guns constantly (again, knowing I could hear everything). Imagine laying in bed at 3am trying to get some sleep before a 7am meeting, and having to listen to two racist assholes literally yell through the walls just to harass me and make sure I couldn’t fall asleep.

Living there was so stressful.