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?
Wu Tang LAN
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.
On for everyone but that dude
I’m sure that was the case well before that point.
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 cannot believe just how absurdly long that has endured - it’s almost literally been an eternity in Internet time.
I think it helps that it’s genuinely a really catchy, uplifting, fucking excellent song, with a fun music video, and the artist really seems like an incredibly wholesome sweetheart.
It also my Fortnite dance when I get a win. Just cause.
It’s my Octavia tune on warframe. I have had people quit matches on me for it :|
even longer than loss
Somehow I missed out on that entirely - I only learned of it relatively recently. Probably because I’ve never been into memes all that much.
it’s no great loss
*groan*
That’s impressive.
Mine has been “WiFi Art Thou Romeo?” for 20+ years
Mine used to be: Tenant Cam 2
Got into a petty pissing match with a sexist POS neighbor who was running a really sketchy (and locally illegal) AirBNB - as a joke I had a couple ESPs broadcasting SSIDs like “[their_address] Bedroom Camera” and “[their_address] Bathroom Camera” that I stuck on the wall nearest their house.
… Turned out to be a huge mistake. They’d actually set up several perv cams inside the house, which was discovered during the incidental investigation into all the human trafficking they were doing, something I found out about when the police showed up and arrested me for suspicion of being involved. Thankfully I was able to convince them I’m just some complete idiot that likes to think they’re funny, but jeeze.
Funny in the retelling, though.
Nah - the cops either were just doing “due diligence” to cover their asses in court, or were truly of “Keystone Kops” intelligence levels to believe someone who knows how to use ESPs would be that blatantly obvious when naming their devices’ Wi-Fi.
Weirdly I’m not actually complaining about them doing due diligence in this case. Aside from all the shit he did to me (well mainly my partner) personally, the dude was selling bathroom footage of the children who stayed there, and there was a fair number of local accomplices in the whole human trafficking & child pornography thing. It took them about four hours to realize what was going on with me and we all had a genuinely good laugh about it, and that vile POS and several of his friends are rotting under the prison as a result of them being thorough.
Rare law enforcement win, though I stress that this is very much an exception to the norm around here.
I don’t think that’s weird at all. Glad they got the guy, and I hope your partner is doing okay.
Mine is “Untrusted Network”
I’d set mine up to say “Distrusted Network” and hope it gets progressively sinister beyond that.
spybus is he direct translation
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.
I’m very sad that story didn’t have a happy ending where they were both hit by a bus or got arrested in a drug sting.
I’m glad that was your old apartment friend.
What the fuck is wrong with people.
That’s when you mail yourself letters from “FBI sharpshooter association” or “Krav Maga instructors association”, and after receiving them post marked, drop them in their mailbox, as if it were postman error.
I’m Tie WiFighter, but nobody’s joined in in my neighborhood
I have “The Internet” and “Honeypot”
I have a boring Wifi name and everyone around too, but this reminds me that I was once sitting on the train and was watching a video with bluetooth headphones in and texting with my friends and some jerk constantly tried to connect to my phone via bluetooth. A pop up window constantly asked me if I wanted to connect to this other guy’s phone and since I was texting I came close to misclicking on ‘yes’ more than once. Then I renamed my phone to FuckOff and he got the message, since then all my phones are called FuckOff.
I have mine set to “VIP Room” and live in an apartment building.
One of my friend’s neighbors named their wifi “is this the Krusty Krab?”
Of course he named his, “no, this is Patrick”
One of my neighbors has The_Booty_Warrior. Another’s is FBI_Surveillance_Van_273
I thought “eduroam” was a pretty funny name
