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I took the opposite approach: make the SSID equal the street address. If it's going to be mapped anyways, might as well name it with a location-based name.
by Kerrick 2y ago
I took the opposite approach: make the SSID equal the street address. If it's going to be mapped anyways, might as well name it with a location-based name.
- Terr_ 2y agoDisagree: That feels like a failure of defense-in-depth, handing unnecessary bonus information to an attacker while providing no actual convenience to legitimate users who already know their own street address. For example, suppose a device on your network is compromised: The attacker instantly get a freebie for a mailing-address they could use for identity-theft/impersonation, blackmail/extortion threats, or scams pretending to be an authority figure. If you also have something like a home security system, they'll immediately know where to go if someone wants to burgle a room full of goodies (possibly visible via camera) as soon as the owner leaves. The reverse direction is also an issue: Suppose someone already knows your street address, and is trying to figure out which wireless network to target in order to harass/hack/burgle you. Even if these all seem unlikely, the information leak is all downside, no benefit.
- cchance 2y agoTHIS! Lol knowing your in an area is one thing, knowing if it's coming from you or the neighbors window 5ft away easily is a big difference
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- gruez 2y agoHonestly anything other than the auto-generated SSID is going to add more entropy and make you stick out. Moreover, AFAIK they track the BSSID (ie. MAC address), so unless you also spoof that, changing the network name is not going to matter.
- DANmode 2y agoPretty Fly for a Wi Fi
- gruez 2y agoThat's actually bad. iOS shows a "privacy warning" if you're connected to a wifi hotspot with a "common name". Presumably that's because if you have something a network with a common name saved (eg. "dlink"), your phone would try to connect to it everywhere you go, exposing your mac address.
- DANmode 2y agoIt was what I thought of when you said "stick out" - because I never see it, and it catches my attention each time. (Your regions may vary!)
- Terr_ 2y ago> your phone would try to connect to it everywhere you go Emphasis on "try", provided the original network wasn't some kind of totally unsecured open one. (And nobody would do that nowadays, right?... Right?) IANANetworkEngineer, but from what I can find about "Evil Twin" WiFi attacks, your device ought to remember and reuse the security info from the legitimate AP. Even if the hacker mimics the SSID and MAC, they probably won't have the other secrets needed to finish tricking your device into finalizing the connection. > exposing your mac address This can be avoided if your device is set to randomize its MAC on each connection to an SSID or that one in particular. However there are some networks where that is undesirable, like a home network that does some assigned IPs and port-forwarding across NAT, etc.
- gruez 2y ago>This can be avoided if your device is set to randomize its MAC on each connection to an SSID or that one in particular. AFAIK only grapheneOS offers per-connection mac randomization. Windows comes close with "change daily". Regular Android has a developer setting that enables it for all networks, which causes issues like you mentioned.