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I do the opposite: one of my laptops is named "Peter's iPhone" (hint: my name is not Peter, nor do I own an iPhone) and I've also set all my Bluetooth to random
by franga2000 3y ago
I do the opposite: one of my laptops is named "Peter's iPhone" (hint: my name is not Peter, nor do I own an iPhone) and I've also set all my Bluetooth to random Bluetooth headset or mouse models.
- vorticalbox 3y agoMy hotspot on my phone is "FBI van 4"
- eindiran 3y agoI see this joke frequently when looking at available wifi; is this meme a reference to a particular thing (other than the FBI having surveillance vans) or did a bunch of people just converge onto it?
- skissane 3y agoSome years ago there was a lot of stuff on 4Chan about “FBI party van”, “vanned”, v&, etc. I’m guessing that’s part of where it has come from.
- vorticalbox 3y agoI saw it as a meme years a go. I sadly don't know the origin.
- noduerme 3y agoI've never seen it. Maybe it's spreading like a fungus from wifi to wifi in certain regions.
- karim79 3y agoOne of the hotspots in my flat is called "Honeypot1"
- kstrauser 3y agoMy blog is honeypot.net. It’s always fun to watch people trying to decide whether to click that link.
- cozzyd 3y agoI wonder if I can sell my WiFI AP name to some advertiser... "ENJOY COCA-COLA" or more likely "TOM BRADY SAYS BUY CRYPTO"
- BeFlatXIII 3y ago"DRINK PEPSI"
- dev_tty01 3y agoIn the early days of insecure WiFi, in apartment buildings you would see network names like "Don't steal our WiFi Room 238!"
- rudasn 3y agoHey! I'm FBI and NSA Guest :)
- namtab00 3y agoI just set mine to the RDS name of some local FM station..
- bcx 3y agoI like this idea, but any sophisticated attacker will ignore the Bluetooth names and just pull vendors off the MAC addresses. Though it would be interesting if you can define the Bluetooth MAC addressees in software to match your fake names :)
- accrual 3y agoI used to do something similar with my router. I would run an AP called "Linksys" or something common and give it an OUI belonging to Cisco. It probably had no benefit (maybe even harmful!), but it was fun to "disguise" my OpenBSD router as a common off the shelf router.
- ok123456 3y agoI name my computer: 'router'
- doubled112 3y agoTo be fair, it probably will route if you ask it.
- Arech 3y agoBluetooth on my old phone is named as "Pfizer-BioNTech chip #<formatteddigits>" :D