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Discouraging People From Joining Your WiFi Network
- andymoe 15y agoOr just don't broadcast your ssid...
- indyT 15y agobut that's an inconvenience - it is much easier to just select a network then have to type the name, call me lazy #imnotsayingimjustsaying
- steventruong 15y agoMaybe I'm not understanding something but if it's secure anyway, why would it matter.
- orofino 15y agoI'm not sure why I care if someone attempts to connect to my network and fails to because they don't know the password.
- nkurz 15y agoOne network name I've enjoyed seeing recently is of the form "DEA Mobile Surveillance Unit #8". I presume this is a good joke rather than a clueless Drug Enforcement team...
- salman89 15y agoIt would be interesting to set '9.95 a minute' as the SSID and leaving the network open.
- tesseract 15y agoOne of my neighbors used to have a (WPA-enabled) network with the SSID, "$10 internet call <phone number>"
- oconnore 15y agoIf only we had cheap bandwidth and SSL by default it wouldn't matter...
- DrStalker 15y agoI used to call my network "Disable Networking" so I could enjoy the confused look of visitors. It's since been renamed to be an in joke between my fiance and myself, which is even more enjoyable.
- ryanhuff 15y agoWhen tethering with wifi through my phone, I use "viruses". But its still a constant stream of connection attempts from passer-bys.
- trotsky 15y agoOddly idiotic blogspam, obviously no one cares if someone tries and fails to connect to their secured network, as if people just sat there guessing passwords anyway.
- spicyj 15y agoStrange, I can see the flag just fine.
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- daimyoyo 15y agoThe article says that most people don't shut off broadcasting the SSID on their router because it's too much hassle. Really? The option on mine took less than a minute to turn off. Then once I set up the machines I use, they connect automatically. Should someone want to use my wifi, I'd just give them the SSID and password. It's not that big a deal, and I have all the security I can get short of setting a hardwired VPN up. The risk of bad things being downloaded aside, why would you want someone tying up bandwidth and slowing your connection down? I don't get it.
- alexqgb 15y agoTangentially related: a clever coffee shop / cafe that offered free wifi changed the name of its network every day, updating it to broadcast whatever their special was. You could not join without thinking (momentarily) about "Corn Chowder, $2" or "Chocolate Chip Cookies - buy one get one free, today only." Yes, they had specials boards, but people ignore those. The network, on the other hand, was unavoidable. From what I understand, this tecnique was extraordinarily effective. Something about clicking on the name of the item triggered an expectation that you were going to get the item. As you sat there, drinking coffee and futzing on Facebook, you'd keep thinking about the special that part of you was now expecting. I suspect the "free" wifi paid for itself very swiftly.
- bdclimber14 15y agoI used a similar strategy with a 5 day stay in a hospital that didn't have WiFi. I tethered my phone and made a protected network called "$10/day - go to room 515". I was actually expecting to get a few clients, but no one ever did visit me.
- saturdayplace 15y agoJust yesterday we had a rogue WAP show up in our building called Virus23. One of our developers was using his phone to broadcast that SSID and his Android tablet was connecting to it. He used that name for the same reason. It made us in IT a bit nervous till we figured out what it was.