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Best Wireless SSIDs You Have Seen?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-a-little-different dept.

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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  1. Well even though mine is cloaked... by gamorck · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can't speak for many others but my SSID is "KeepDrivingAsshole" - I've also seen one in my wardriving travels called, "LeaveMeAlone". Apparently somebody had already had a bit of fun with his network, eh?

    --
    I love idealists not because I am one, but because they make life bearable for pragmatists such as myself.
  2. WarTraining is c00l by KE1LR · · Score: 5, Interesting
    During a trip last year on the Acela I ran NetStumbler for a couple of hours as we cruised toward Washington DC and was able to find hundreds of access points. Here are a couple of the interesting SSID's from the log:
    • KeepDemBussesRollin (passing a state DOT building)
    • Don't mooch off my shit
    • testing-testing-testing

    It was also common to use what looked like a business name or the a person's first name ("lisa") as the SSID. Some AP's had random alphanumerics or what was obviously an attempt at a password for the SSID.

    I also did a very basic analysis of some of the interesting things I discovered, such as...

    • Most AP's were advertising 11Mbit speed but about 16% advertised higher speeds. I'm not sure if the higher speeds were "a" networks, "g" networks or both. My laptop had an a/b wireless card.

    • 1/3 of the AP's detected were using what was obviously their vendor's default SSID (i.e. "Linksys" "default" "NETGEAR")

    • >60% of all AP's detected were not running WEP of any kind, but more than half of the Cisco AP's had WEP enabled (probably because end-users generally don't run Cisco stuff).

    • Vendor breakdown (no they don't add up to 100%)

      • Linksys 38%
      • Cisco 17%
      • NetGear 11%
      • D-Link 6%
      • Symbol 4%
      • Apple 2%
      • Microsoft 2%
      • Proxim/Agere/Orinoco 2%
      • Belkin 1.5%
      • BreezeNet 1.5%
      • ... and a bunch of others that only appeared once or twice like Addtron, Sercomm,Gemtek, Z-Com, etc.

    The sample size for this was about 250 AP's during the outbound trip. On the return trip I ran NetStumbler for a lerger portion of the ride and recorded over 1000 AP's (some of which were duplicates of course) but I haven't taken the time to anlyze this larger data set yet.

    I didn't try to connect to any of the AP's... most of them would come and go within a few seconds anyway. :)