Passive-Aggressive Wi-Fi Hotspots

the digital nomad writes "If you've had enough of your neighbor stealing your Wi-Fi connection or letting his dog s#%t on your lawn, there is now a better solution than suffering in silence with your brooding anger: leave your neighbor 'a message!' Passive-Aggressive Wi-Fi Hotspots let your networks say what you cannot. And if you're looking for some great name for your Hotspot, make sure to read this post by Gizmodo."

Comments

spelling correction

[phil42]

that is spelled $#!+

Best way to deal with this is good old Cat5.

[Rod Beauvex]

I'd like to see my neighboor get into my wired network.

Re:Best way to deal with this is good old Cat5.

[Rod Beauvex]

Alternatively, nothing says 'stay off my network' like four bands of plastic sheathed cable to the face.

Senile old man

[xbeefsupreme]

You Damn kids, get off my wifi!!

Re:Senile old man

[maxwell demon]

I think "get off my WLAN" sounds better.
Note that WLAN is an anagram of LAWN.

Stupid idea.

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

Just install some snooper and logger and let the neighbour in, steal the credentials to his bank account, brokerage account, clean them out, and bankrupt him and force his home into foreclosure and buy it yourself using his own money that you stole. Now no pesky neighbour riding free on your WiFi. Instead you come up with some lame network names? Dumb.

My SSID is BALLNASTY

[L3370]

It's questionably vulgar. And I know all my neighbors are seeing this.

The best thing about the name was when my girlfriends mother stayed over for vacation. She brought her laptop and asked for the name of our WiFi network. My girlfriend said it to her in a mumbling embarrassed tone.

better yet

[Anonymous Coward]

ifYouPasswordProtectYourNetworkIllStopUsingYourInternet

I came up with the best name

[wbav]

When people connect to my wireless network with a Microsoft machine, they see:

"Windows is now connecting to the 'Psychic Friends' network."

Makes me smile, every time.

I do this already

[Itninja]

The SSID of my unsecured 'guest' hotspot (for friends' cell phone and such) has be called 'keystroke_logger_enabled" for years.

Oblig Bash.org:

[Weaselmancer]

#202477 +(7983)- [X]

(Mootar) morons.
(Mootar) these people who live in my apartment complex are connected to my wireless
(Mootar) they must think they're super-cool hackers by breaking into my completely unsecure network
(Mootar) unfortunatly, the connection works both ways
(Mootar) long story short, they now have loads of horse porn on their computer

better yet

[formfeed]

Open your wifi a couple days before you go on vacation and set squid to redirect all the "bad" sites to some scary warning page you made up. Then immediately disconnect.

The warning page will show your neighbour's lan address, but your public IP and your street address, together with some severe warnings.

Two days later, have some friends drag you out of the house into a dark car. For effect they can also carry out an old computer monitor. When you return two weeks later, look angrily at your neighbor.