Best Wireless SSIDs You Have Seen?

Ant writes "Best SSIDs you have seen is the name of the new Broadband Reports' wireless security forum. Funny ones listed that made me chuckle: WardriversOpenAP, GET LOST, HackedAP, SecureAP (no WEP/WPA), TOP_SECRET, HPD-FieldOffice, MiddleEarth, HoneyPot, mine, and people's full/last name." I think naming your network 'Default' or 'Linksys' should be a crime ;)

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My neighborhood

[dcw3]

Several "linksys", a couple with family names, and one called "The Castle"

Re:My neighborhood

[aventius]

Twice now, I have seen "linksys" as the SSID. Both times, I logged in remotely to their router because the the owners kept the default password. So I changed their SSID to "Yeasty Cunts" and then I booted and blocked them off their own network. I felt that doing this would teach them a little lesson in security. In both instances, the owners had a better SSID, enabled a new password and either WEP or WPA within a day or two. Mission accomplished

Re:My neighborhood

[Anonymous Coward]

Mess with my AP and I'll kick your ass.

Really. I can't beleive that you'd screw with other people's property like that. I have a public AP with simple passwords so we technical folks of the community can all deal with problems as they crop up. If you screwed with it, it would cost me a couple hours of time to fix the issue costing me a couple hundred dollars of lost billable time. Similar cost to the cost you will incure to get your windshield repaired when I bust it up with my softball bat.

Joe

Re:My neighborhood

[Tassach]

Print the serial number of the device on the case of the box, use it as the default password

Uh huh. Can you say "tech support nightmare"? Not only that, it would mean you'd have to create one-off firmware for each and every unit. Every router I've ever used has a factory default password which gets used when you do a hardware reset, and for good reason: the drool monkeys who can't set the clock on their VCR are buying network gear and trying to make it work. The clueless tier 1 tech support goobers need to have a SIMPLE idiot-proof script they can read to the drool monkeys to get them back up and running when they inevitably dork things up.

Remember we're talking about the kind of end-users who set their password to their kids birthday and STILL manage to forget it. Actually expecting them to accurately transcribe a 20 digit alphanumeric string off the box (which they probably threw away immediately, along with the manual) is asking a bit much, and getting them to read the RIGHT number off a sticker on the unit (which likely has a half-dozen different numbers on it)

Netstumbler has a simliar thread

[X00M]

http://www.netstumbler.org/showthread.php?t=11311

Re:What

[Roofus]

Obscure? Broadband Reports (formerly DSL Reports) is the best source of information for all things DSL/Cable (and now VOIP too). Everybody else seems to know that, except you.

The knowledge of cable and DSL there is much better than what I see on /.

Re:Best SSID

[AKnightCowboy]

I think the one most relevent to current events is the coolest. That'd be Cisco's "tsunami" default SSID on some of their access points.

The best SSID ...

[The Llama King]

... is the one you never see. Turn off the SSID broadcast unless you want to share the connection.

false sense of security with MAC filtering

[Anonymous Coward]

You do realize once your WEP/WPA is broken, we can pluck a MAC out of the air, and then by spoofing, still compromise your network, yes?

Not that this is your problem, you're doing far more than most and I applaude such - but do blame the vendors for giving you substandard encryption/encryption options.

Re:Best SSID

[saigon_from_europe]

With or without the name of the manufacturer, it is the same. You can always discover the manufacturer - MAC address is unique, and its first part is assotiated with the manufacturer.

Totally useless and ineffective.

[Otto]

Disabling SSID broadcast doesn't prevent somebody from seeing your SSID. The SSID is in every frame, so it's not like you're preventing anybody with a sniffer from seeing the SSID. Furthermore, they don't even need your SSID to connect to you, as on most systems, the "ANY" SSID will allow association unless your AP had the ability to disable that.

All disabling SSID broadcast will do is to prevent your SSID from showing up in Windows little list of "available networks". This might prevent the little old lady next door from connecting to your system by accident, but it does absolutely nothing in terms of security.

Re:Why I'm A Bastard

[Anonymous Coward]

It's pretty easy to do if you run your own DNS server.

Create a forward zone called "." (no quotes), and a domain called "*" within that zone, and create a new host in that domain with no name, pointing it to whatever IP you want it to. (That's MS DNS Server -- see the link below for BIND)

That'll redirect top-level domains to whatever IP you want. Then use mod_rewrite if you redirected it to your own web server, to strip all the URL information off of it, so that it always goes to "mypicutre.png".

I would post a sample, but I've got too many junk characters in it.

Use this page: http://www.freebsdfreaks.net/articles/fake_dns.php s

for more info.