
We were setting up our wireless router in this our new house when we made a startling realization. Our wireless hotspot doesn't need to be limited to boring names like LinksysN or 2Wire1969, they can be messages to our neighbors that they see every time they connect to their router. Here are some that our crack team of jerks have come up with.
People do pay attention to SSIDs. But it doesn't always make sense. For example, I recently setup a wireless network for a friend. Before giving it to her, I did all the configuring of her new wireless router while it was still my home and had it up and running with the SSID my friend wanted to use on her network: Aardvark.
Unusual but that's what she wanted. Ok.
So that router was setup, boxed up, and sent nearly 200 miles away where it now happily does its wifi thing.
But in my immediate neighborhood, there is now a router using that very same name. Someone, for reasons that I cannot comprehend, saw me using that name -and it was a truly brief period- and now uses it for themselves.
But WHY? Why bother?
"GetYourOwnDSLCheapskate" lol
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