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I was thinking “Vladimir LANin”

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

boring answer: do not broadcast an SSID

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How do you have friends who visit log into your WiFi?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

easy, i dont!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just a guess: you do it for them?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How if you can't see it listed?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Plus, if it's a phone you can use your phone's wireless settings to generate a QR code that they can scan to connect automatically to the wifi. I no longer have to deal with spelling passwords or writing it for them or whatever. QR code, scan, connect, easy easy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Good point, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Connect to a hidden network" and it will ask you for the SSID and authentication details.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ahh, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't do this, your phone will periodically ask for hidden SSIDs everywhere you go, making you easy to track passively.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How does that make you easier to track?

Unless you turn off WiFi, phones are always searching for WiFi anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Most devices actively ask around for the hidden SSIDs they know about. As in, they send a broadcast in cleartext called a "probe request" containing the list of hidden SSIDs every time they scan for access points.

Today usually the scans use randomised MAC addressess for privacy, but that doesn't help if you have any hidden SSIDs stored because of this list. Places like shopping malls are known to use these beacons to track the movements of individual people.

Before 802.11w (that still works almost always because 802.11w tends to be deactivated for compatibility), there was a trivial way to "unmask" a hidden SSID, you have to wait for someone to talk to the target access point, send a disassociation frame to the victim, and wait for the probe request / response when the victim automatically reconnects.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Do that many people use hidden ssids that it's worth for non-state actors to track them?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Another contender is “five year LAN”

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Wu Tang Lan

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Bill Wi the Science Fi

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

FBI Surveillance Van #x is always a classic

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If your devices all support Unicode in SSIDs, "Perfectly Normal WiFi" in Mandarin.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Havana Syndrome Ray Gun Emitter

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

"US Secret Police Station"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I bet you enjoy the default Windows desktop background.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Flowers By Irene

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Okay now this is epic

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

ItBurnsWhenIP

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

My hotspot's name is "Searching..."

Got my best friend like 5 times with it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

While LAN puns are always good, these days I'm thinking "fuck it be explicit" so how about 'Execute all cops'?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I think Gerald would be a nice name for a wifi network

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

A classic for a network with a password is something on the lines of "Free WiFi for everyone"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Cool Communist Compound People

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Soviet Broadcast Tower

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

“Router? But I barely know ‘er!”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

5G Transgender Woke Ray

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Big Penis Academy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Soviet Central Television

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not VLANdimir?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Don't talk about SSIDs. They can and are collected passively, with location data attached, on a wide scale. They can be searched by any old bloke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Pretty fly for a WiFi.