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Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs
MichaelSmith writes "I code on the tram, going to and from work, and I noticed that there are a lot of WiFi access points along the way. So one week I made it my job to write an automatic scanner which runs from a cron job every minute during commuting times. My backup script pushes the new AP names to my web server and you can read it online. It is a mixture of the straightforward, naive and funny, with a few pop culture references along the way. The first column in the file is the number of access points with that name. The second column is the AP name, in brackets to pick up white space." Why can't "Dress Me Slowly" and "Domestic Bliss" just share an AP?
The closest thing to 'goatse' I could find was 'GOATNET'.
Only 29 locations named linksys? I think there are that many in my neighborhood alone.
This article is truly the epitome of a slow news day. Happy spring everyone!
The SSID I use is "Honeypot"
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
Four comments, and the linked server has already exploded.
My backup script pushes the new AP names to my web server and you can read it on line.
You're not hosting your page via one of those access points, are you? I think it just melted.
... and then they built the supercollider.
slashdotted
MichaelSmith /.s his own server.
My favourite is the tie fighter: ]-o-[
Any fool can talk, but it takes a wise man to listen.
I live in a pretty nice little suburb. Full of old people, business owners, and people who generally don't know how shit works., So, all the APs are default except for two. One is "grandma's house", and the other is "midget sex".
I really want to find out who named theirs midget sex.
Bionicman. You can probably guess the password.
In the middle of one of the university buildings (not in a dorm) there's a network with the SSID "IHaveNetYouSuckerDont".
Huh? There's nothing illegal about logging the names of Wifi networks. Or at least there shouldn't be, as that would be completely crazy.
It's aking to noting the names people display publicly next to their doorbells, just easier to do. He didn't connect to any of the networks, just log their names. Nothing wrong with that.
Proud member of the Ferengi Socialist Party.
Sa-Matra
ON DELETE CASCADE
There are a lot of "cute" AP names around, but mine is what the thing came with. The extent of my interest in that equipment is knowing I've properly secured it, and occasionally looking at the access logs. Beyond that I don't care. I've already thought about it way too much today.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
I made my neighbors mad when I started naming my SSIDs with things like STFU, ByteMe and the ever popular F*Off. Somehow they always knew it was me though.
For a long time I then stopped broadcasting my SSIDs but now I have them broadcasting but changing every few months.
What'd he ever do to you?
should had it set to Linksys, netgear or other defaults. They you may of seen more hacks.
linksys sucks
enter_and_your_hacked
ADSL sucks
WOTAM
somehow, the last one seems most appropriate...
I work at a company where we sell some software which monitors access points. We have to be careful when taking things home to make sure that there aren't any offensive SSIDs that end up on the demo box. Occasionally something Interesting happens and it has to be carefully scrubbed...
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
"dress me slowly" is a retro clothing store on Nicholson St in Fitzroy. The tram route is therefore route 96 in Melbourne Australia..
What? This wasn't one me those tram spotters quizzes?
It's certainly not illegal anyplace that I've ever heard of.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Doesnt' netstumbler already do this?
It's certainly not illegal anyplace that I've ever heard of.
What about Soviet Russia?
Why yes, it is illegal to read data that is being broadcasted unencrypted over the air. So remember, every time Windows tells you what networks are available, you're an immoral, "iimatu", criminal.
I'm sorry, but what the hell are you smoking that makes you think it's illegal, let alone IMMORAL, to record freely broadcasted data that isn't even COPYRIGHTED?
My sig can beat up your sig.
Not only is it legal, but it's been going on for a long while now.
When I lived in Reno, there was an access point near my apartment named FBIOPS. Either someone was in trouble or someone has a great sense of humor. Really, who is gonna try to hack that one?
Setting his threshold to 5, Sparky eliminated most of the trolls on /.
Slashdotted.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
and how did this make slashdot? SERIOUSLY wigle.net + KISMET .... oh common.
They you may of seen more hacks.
I have seen.
You have seen.
You may have seen.
There's no such thing as "may of".
Why don't you also check the box to not broadcast the SSID?
I know it doesn't really buy much security, but still. I have never broadcasted my SSID. If you need to know it, I'll tell you, and add you to the list of allowed MAC addresses (again, I know, not totally secure, but still... another hoop to jump thru.)
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Indeed. It's public information, broadcast on some of the most public of the public airwaves -- the 2.4GHz ISM band. Nothing needs decrypted (therefore, various satellite and terrestrial broadcast rules don't apply, nor the DMCA), and nothing needs accessed (therefore, various computer access rules don't apply). Further, an SSID is too short for a meaningful copyright, and trademark law doesn't apply since it's not used in trade. And, of course, recording and publishing these things is simply recording and publishing a list of facts; a practice which has long been protected by various laws and rulings.
Kid-proof tablet..
I saw a SSID of "Republicans cheat on their wives"
I died laughing.
Really? Maybe some cron script or similar, but I doubt you can really do profitable work on the tram.
Perhaps somebody can enlighten me.
Whenever I have to wait in a public place, I often audit the bluetooth name space with my cellphone. It is quite interesting to look at the nicknames that sometimes people assign to their cellphones, especially if you can identify the owner. One of the most appropriate nicks I found was "stinky"...
That's my AP. Deal with it.
Hmm actually, you might be onto something here. Since in recent years, everything you write is given copyright status by default, I suppose those AP names *are* copyrighted. Then copying them without permission would be illegal!
Oh wait, except the person running the AP is probably the one who came up with the name, and so I guess s/he authorized it to be publicly distributed.
Better tell SETI. Wouldn't want to piss of the aliens.
You're missing out on a lot of SSIDs if you're only scanning once a minute. A simple "while true; do iwlist $options >> script1.txt; done" in a few scripts started a second or two apart will help catch more. Maybe set up a cron job to cat and sort -u them together occasionally.
Why would slashdotting your own website be illegal?
"we can hear you having sex"
They you may of seen more hacks.
I have seen. You have seen. You may have seen.
There's no such thing as "may of".
there is may 've though
Why do people post their own stuff here, knowing that their site will crash and burn within seconds? Both of the links are dead. Both!
Nothing for 6-digit uids?
I use AiryFairy. You know when you put a signal out there someone is sure to pick it up :) Hiding it does nothing for someone with the tools to crack your WEP or WPA (I hear someone demonstrated a less computationally intense way to crack WPA recently). Even MAC address filtering barely helps... WPA with RADIUS authentication, now that has to be harder...
By searching for some of those SSID names it might not be difficult to plot a map of where he works and the route taken. If starting in suburbia it might be more difficult to find out where he lives.
One name is "Bourke Street". Assuming he is taking the tram then it must be route 86, 95 or 96. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourke_Street,_Melbourne#Transportation
Anyway, where are the GPS coordinates?
A neighbor of mine uses Flashy Girl as her SSID. It's actually a variation of that, I don't want to give out the whole thing, that would be creepy :-)
I used to keep my WEP/WPA off until one day I saw Big Pimpin' as a registered device on my network. After that I got a little less neighborly.
What? He's in MELBOURNE? His URL (.tl) says he's in EAST TIMOR!
you are not talking to it, it is talking to you
I enjoy changing my neighbors unsecured default passworded ap's ssid to something sure to catch their attention, and encourage them to secure their wireless.
Everyday You see me is the worst day of my life -Office Space
... if you're not prepared to be Slashdotted. What did you think was going to happen?
I use a cradlepoint Wifi router with my Verizon Wireless USB modem. Since VW is about 3-4 times faster than the CenturyLink DSL here, I use a SSID of "CLinkSucks".
Hello, I hate to tell you this but the link is not working.
A wise man once said everything in life progresse through three stages, Survival, Social Order, Entertainment, that wise
I'd write it "They you may 'ave seen..." if I wanted it to be interpreted that way. (typo in first word already present)
I got rid of of passwords, WPA,WPA2,WEP or whatever crap and just changed my SSID to "$5.99 per minute".
I check the logs and have never seen a single person connect to my router.
Yeah, I think inverted the polarity of your Sarcasm Detector.
To my knowledge, and IANAL, a NAME does not fall within the realm of copyrightable material. And even if it does, this would have a strong case for Fair Use.
My sig can beat up your sig.
Currently I'm running A&N and B&G networks named "ENCOM" using WPA2-PSK. As soon as I get me new server up the encryption will be stepped up to WPA2-Enterprise.
I also have a G only network named "ENCOM/Public" on a DMZ that's for guests and systems not on my domain.
And finally the "screw with people" network, that I use to try different fun.
p.s. I've been using "ENCOM" as my LAN name for 15 years, so the new movie isn't the influence.
Mate of mine lives next door to the Malvern cop shop, one of his neighbors Ap is "pigfucker".. thought that one was nice....
Law violates you?
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
In Sovi....err, nevermind.
Exactly. Otherwise...
This just in: receiving a ping from a restricted computer is OMGILLEGAL ...
Their may be a grammatical error, misspeling, or evn a typo in this post.
Yeah because as everyone knows, Australia is in Europe...
You obviously have no clue how wifi works. The routers are broadcasting their identification codes and names. All your computer has to do is listen. It's the same as if you were just tuning into all the local FM bands and listening to what other people were listening to (as most of those devices are unencrypted). He doesn't have to "ping" the other wifi networks to listen to them. He doesn't hack anything or attempt to decrypt anything; he simply listens to routers shouting out their names. Perfectly legal. If you scan for wifi access points with Windows, you're doing the same thing; the only difference: he wrote the names down and put the names online.
I came, I saw, She conquered.
You mean I have to specifically allow each and every single packets to connect to my computer? Otherwise they attempt to connect to my network without authorization?
Can I sue all those who ping my IP without written consent?
What's more you cannot locate anyone, from the SSID alone, unless they make it obvious. My ssid is dd-wrt good luck.
OP's statement is absurd. In the USA they have much more obscure interpretation of the laws when it comes to networks.
Views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the author.
Melbourne, Australia is not part of Europe. As some other commenters have already noted, the route is most likely the 96 tram. I take the tram all the time (in Melbourne), does that make me a Eurodouche too?
I've patented the copyrighting of names.
That's boring though. I was hoping to get more than the casual intruder. Maybe I could learn something from them. :) We don't just put honeypots out there to detect who's doing bad things, do we? I thought it was to learn from their methods and protect against them.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
I was trying to get to a share on my room mate's computer using "//192.168.blah.blah" through my wireless. When I accessed his share, I noticed that what I was looking for wasn't there and there were a great number of different people's resumes there for some reason. That's when I realized I had mistakenly logged on the neighbor's completely open wi-fi, it wasn't secured, the computer I was looking up was running Win98 and it's C:\ drive was being completely shared. The saddest part was that my neighbor was a half-way house for ex-cons who were on house arrest and the resumes I was seeing were theirs. I never got the courage to tell the administration about their lack of security as the place spooked me.
www.yescomputersolutions.com/access_points.txt
http://www.yescomputersolutions.com/access_points.txt oops
It's certainly not illegal anyplace that I've ever heard of.
What about Soviet Russia?
... points access you?
"All these years believing you're the signified monkey, only to find out you're just a big hunk of nobody cares."
I'm surprised all the SSIDs aren't "Bruce".
Prisencolinensinainciusol. Ol Rait!
http://www.yescomputersolutions.com/access_points.txt here we go. :-D
But the network, and main hub are called Tweedle Dee. The slave hub (repeater, where the printer hooks up) is called Tweedle Dum.
The CB App. What's your 20?
Very strange for all six of them ... does it maybe mean it took him six minutes to pass through the service area of one of them?
Not that the DMCA means a whole lot in Australia anyway...
I leave an AP open using my street number as SSID. Its outside my firewall and bandwidth is throttled to 15% of my 15/25 Fios. I check the logs sometimes. Its usually someone who came out on a service call, probably logging the job and gettting directions to the next gig. I saw repeated connections once so I blocked the mac address. Shortly after, my close freinds next door noted to me that thier wireless stopped working. I went over and set up their Fios router for wireless.
http://artifacts.glitch.tl.nyud.net/access_points.txt
I use "bukkake" and "gokkun" in my crowded, urban neighborhood. Might as well teach the neighbor's kids early!
His ISP is SPININTERNET in Sydney...
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
Except picking up the SSID that is being openly broadcast is not even remotely similar to pinging that same router.
I'd rather call it war-commuting.
The store's parking lot had security cameras all around on the top of light posts. Signs were up about it being "closed circuit security cameras watching" except the security cameras were all meshed using 802.11b, no encryption, but hidden ssid which happened to be the store's name; ironically the ssid was broadcasted still every say 5 minutes to maintain the mesh I assume.
I came to the conclusion that you live in Melbourne, Australia, and that was before I found "melbournefineart". Since several people list their address, it would be fairly easy to associate a few of these with physical locations, and map your tram route. With one end near a residential area and the other in a business area, we can probably determine which is which.
It's fascinating information, though. Purplemonkeydishwasher is represented (multiple times). "stasi" too, that's good. "slowpieceofcrap" is informative, I wonder if netcraft could confirm that one? "pootwoog" is proof this is from Australia - no one else invents words like Aussies do. Oh yes, and it's good to have finally found the "other side of the rabbit hole". A little acting humor in "mycoitpiece"?
"Paul's Face Is A Network" "Paul Gleeson's iMac" "Paul Beardsell's iMac" "Scott Crighton's iMac" - this suggests that the iMac automatically names your network somehow. Does this reveal a previously unknown data leak? I can't be arsed to research iMac enough to tell.
I think the data should be grouped case-insensitively - maybe make the most common case the representative one? HOME Home and home would be equivalent - but I suppose we can do that as an exercise to the reader. It would cut down on the number of distinct names.
OP's statement is absurd. In the USA they have much more obscure interpretation of the laws when it comes to networks.
No, we just have some of the best idiots. Or the worst, take your pick.
You are slightly mistaken. In keeping with leromarinvit's example, it is perfectly alright (though possibly a little creepy/suspicious) for you to walk down the street, and each time you come to a house, walk up to it & jot down the publicly displayed information. For example, if I'm not mistaken, most areas in the US require/encourage you to have the number portion of your address clearly displayed in some noticeable form on/near your house (for 911 services & the like), or its also often customary to put your name/address on your mailbox, or by your door bell (especially for apartment buildings you've to be buzzed into).
Copying this information is the real world equivalent to going down the bus/train/etc line, and logging all of the SSIDs the computer can detect.
Where it starts to become illegal is when, rather than just noting the SSID, you attempt to join the network. If, instead of just jotting down whatever information I'm collecting, I twist the door nob, then I start to get into hot water (as it were). Hopefully, when I twist the door nob, I find the door locked. If I then get my lock picking tools out & "correct" that "problem", or find other means into the house (ie through an unlocked window), then yes, I have broken the law. In the real wold version, its breaking & entering. In the network version, it would be unauthorized access to a computer or networked device (or whatever the legal term is).
There is a little gray area, at least last I checked, if the network is not encrypted (ie when I twist the door nob, the door opens). Of course 2 likely reasons for this would be A.) your nice & have decided to share with whoever is near, or B.) you don't know any better. If B, you probably wouldn't even know someone was on your network (unless of course they started to hog your resources), so you wouldn't know to press charges, and if A, you wouldn't press charges because you were nice. Of course, just because charges are not pressed doesn't mean a crime wasn't committed...
Or, you could look at it this way... If it were illegal to query the SSID of a network you did not have access rights to, then A LOT of people are in big trouble pretty much every day! Do you have a smart phone that has wifi capabilities? When I ran into the local grocery store and I pulled my phone out to check the weather, as soon as I launched the weather app, it prompted me if I wanted to join the StrAwB3rrie5 network. When I ran into Walmart & was checking out something in their electronics department I again got my phone out to check google to make sure what I was going to buy was compatible with what I wanted to use it for. I was asked if I wanted to join either of the two Walmart networks (Walmart's names are not as cute (0x0583723753743 or something to that effect)). On the ride home, while looking up something for the driver, I was prompted at least 3 different times to join a network. That means I violated federal law 5 different times - all during a quick trip in town for some errands. Had I been out longer, I could have possibly picked up a few more counts. Thats just 1 person... I'm sure there are a lot more people out there just as guilty as me... If such an act as illegal, would Google, Apple, et al make it a default on their phones?
It's public information [...] And, of course, recording and publishing these things is simply recording and publishing a list of facts; a practice which has long been protected by various laws and rulings.
Not everywhere. In many European jurisdictions at least it is not at all obvious that publishing a list made of publicly available information is legal. In particular, if it is considered "personal information" about people, creating a new compilation of it falls under various personal data protection laws - even if every individual piece of information in there is publicly available somewhere.
I don't know of any place that'd considered AP SIDs to be personal information in that sense, though - but it wouldn't surprise me either.
My current SSID is 2. Just the number. It really should be 4 at this point because I am now on my fourth different wireless router. Yes, that's all it is. Gotta call it something.
Unlike all of my neighbors with their names or whatever as SSID, using just a single digit number is completely obtuse. Nobody is going to figure out what it means, and even if they did, they'd probably wish they hadn't bothered to figure it out.
Fun trivia: When my friends need wifi setup, I usually buy the gear and set it up at my home to test it all out. So I did that for one friend who wanted to use the SSID of Racoondog, so I set that up on a test box. Briefly. And took it down, packed it up and off it went where it happily works to this day.
But somebody in my neighborhood saw that brief open SSID and cloned it and there is now another network called "Racoondog" very near by. Why they would bother to do this, I dunno. But they did. Maybe to see if anyone would connect to it? Not that my neighbors seem capable of anything remotely sophisticated.
Sig for hire.
I wonder if we could use this list of access points to find and map his drive?
There is a wireless router in my neighborhood named "Snookums" which makes me afraid to know what they named their cat.
Everything in the Universe sucks: It's the law!
...you might have thought you've got a bad connection.
My SSID is: Limited or no connectivity
and my WPA2 Passphrase is: 4C696D69746564206F72206E6F20636F6E6E6563746976697479
well ya,
its right between italy, germany, and hungary.
Only Atheists who enjoy LOST can steal my Internet ;)
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
And how does this judge get his email without pinging/accessing any routers that he hasn't specifically gotten permission to access? Does he use a specific vpn hardcoded to run over a small number of routers to which he has requested and gotten permission (written in triplicate of course) to access? Or does he just break his own ruling everytime he gets a spam message?
There are two kinds of fool One says 'This is old therefore good' Another says 'This is new therefore better'- Dean Ing
http://wigle.net/gps/gps/Map/onlinemap2/
Combine it with a GPS and join the thousands of people already doing this and contribute to this site.
I.O.U One Sig.
Python was taking all the CPU on my server. Check back tonight if you want the code. I will re-enable it later.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
Getting the use of their TLD must have been part of the deal for the army going in to rescue them from Indonesia. Along with the oil of course.
The .tl domain names are cheap and convenient for me.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
I see these "Free Public WiFi" ESSIDs all over the place in public areas, such as airports. They never work. They're usually ad-hoc networks.
I assumed for a while that they're symptoms/carriers of some kind of malware, but didn't really worry about it since I don't use Windows.
I just read this article which has a slightly crazy but just-maybe-plausible theory to explain them. They think that it's a weird, propagating out-of-control Windows XP feature, which makes every network to which an XP computer connects propagate its name as an ad-hoc network. And then when somebody else tries to connect because of the enticing name, they keep the ESSID alive for another minute since it's an ad-hoc network, and this continues ad infinitum. So the whole thing is nothing but a long-lasting "echo" of a forgotten network that keeps alive in heavily trafficked public areas. The whole idea seems nuts. Dumber than dumb. Dumber than Microsoft even.
But I haven't heard of any better explanation for the "Free Public Wifi" phenomenon. Anyone else???
My bicyles
How do you get around, by dog sled? I have to admit thats pretty macho. Dense urban areas need good, clean, convenient public transport so that people can go about their business without clagging the roads up with cars, taxis and buses. Think of trams as horizontal elevators for business districts.
Compare the Melbourne CBD with Sydney. The noise in Sydney turns me away.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
GPS won't work inside a tram unless you hold it up to the window but you could approximate it from the time. Knowing the route you could model the speed of the tram at different points. The script updates an hg repo with changes to the list of AP names so the time would give you the location with pretty good accuracy. The first commit would be close to the first stop where I power the laptop up.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
As others have pointed out, the SSID is part of the hashing of the passphrase that goes to make up a WPA2 key. I therefore generate the SSID and the passphrase with a reasonably strong random number generator (openssl), leaving a reasonable period between the two steps to reduce the chance of any correlation. That way, it is highly unlikely that a set of pre-computed tables will be of use, forcing any attacker to attempt a brute-force search from cold. Given that the key is also a randomly-chosen string, the only way that my network is weaker than brute-force is if there's a practical attack that is better than brute force, and in that scenario key selection is unlikely to help me.
My ssid is dd-wrt good luck.
FOUND YOU! What are the odds that my neighbor posts on slashdot... ermm.. it's not me using your bandwidth... I swear.
It's either false dichotomies, or the terrorists win, you decide.
SSID broadcast you?
It's either false dichotomies, or the terrorists win, you decide.
Oh and SSID stands for soviet socialist ID
It's either false dichotomies, or the terrorists win, you decide.
Unsecured .. free for all. Abusers get mac blocked for a few days.
Sent from my desktop computer
I once moved to a new apartment and the internet provider said it would take a few days for mine to be set up. I was happy to find an unsecured AP for use for the next few days.
Since then I've always had my wifi open and free for use. There are very few abusers. If there are ... you can always block them using their mac address. Most of the office going crowd's internet goes unused during daytime 9-5ish. I see no point in securing it unless you really have the need.
PLEASE unsecure your wifi. It helps people around you. Thanks!
Sent from my desktop computer
Chris Isaak had to quit calling his band Silvertone when he got a deal with Warner Brothers, Sears would NOT cut a deal for the use of the name. He can use that name for an album or a song though, and I think he's kind of using the name "unofficially" for his band now. As for me, it ain't been Silvertone since they did the Pete Best thing to Johnnie Silvers.
They feared that it could be used to suppress protest or support unpopular rule.
I once had mine set to "Stop Sniffing My Wifi" and later to "Secret CIA Node #301"
I considered "Sex Offender Network" just to see if it got a reaction, but thought better of it.
May of '09? Damn fine month!
Can I copyright the name of my band?
No. Names are not protected by copyright law. Some names may be protected under trademark law. Contact the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, 800-786-9199, for further information.
Names cannot be protected under copyright law, but they can be protected under trademark law, which to my knowledge doesn't make it illegal to list trademarked names.
My sig can beat up your sig.
I have a dedicated, unsecured AP called "Free Candy" that only randomly serves goatse, lemonparty, 1guy1cup, and bluewaffle.
Ok, so you have a list of SSID's. Who freakin cares. Thanks for putting your resume, with your name, address and phone number, in the same directory though. I suppose I don't need to post my disappointment here, because I can just call you on your home phone number. Or swing by and dump a turd on your front step.
I sure hope your broken arm heals ok. It looks nasty from the X-Ray you have sitting next to your resume.
But I'll stick with "Hot Midget Sex"
"Remember when I said I would never lie? Well, that was the first time."
Mine is secured with WPA, broadcasts SSID, and lists my address. (not the full address, for brevity, but certainly enough for anyone on the street to contact me).
Now, what information is actually being exposed here that I wouldn't want out there?
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
001 [We love sexy men]
Now, I may just be speaking for myself here, but it seems to me that your WiFi SSID is probably not the best place to go advertising for sexy men. Men with poor complexion, men with occasional lapses in personal hygiene, men with crazy caffeine habits, yes. Sexy men, not so much...
YourDogBarksTooMuchAndNeedsAWalk
Yeah because as everyone knows, Australia is in Europe...
It is. It's a small country whose capital is Vienna.
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
I'm surprised you have enough space to open a laptop. Also, aren't you concerned about thieving lebbo's?
This was Slashdotted yesterday, here's the top names on the list in case it goes down again:
359 []
070 [Free Public WiFi]
069 [hpsetup]
068 [NETGEAR]
047 [DLINK]
043 [eduroam]
043 [TDPJ]
040 [Telstra CBD]
029 [linksys]
026 [wireless]
026 [RMIT-WPA]
024 [Azure]
024 [ANZWLAN]
020 [myLGNet]
020 [guestnet]
020 [OL-FAPWIFINET-SSID]
018 [RMIT]
014 [default]
Some of the more, er, interesting names:
001 [youcannotlogontothis] - O RLY? ;-)] - Um, that's not what the antenna is for.... :.] - Are we in Thailand or are you just happy to see me?
001 [private^*W@^*W^*@^*(**S^*] - not any more
001 [god] - obviously an imposter, everyone knows God starts with a capital letter!
001 [fuckyou] - what did I ever do to you???
001 [The Surgery Creative Operations] - The SCO Network
001 [Purplemonkeydishwasher] - I hope the purple monkey's getting union wages
001 [Jizle Bedizle Mynizle Fashizle] - waiting for translation... waiting... translation error, language not found in database
001 [JimbobNET] - Kepten, there be Wales here!
001 [Internet Death Virus] - ooh, I'm so scared!
001 [Iiæ#ÐÚij~L~Q%HS:"û1(TM)2WDî¼éå] - say that three times fast
001 [Gay sex for me
001 [GOATNET] - Ah, so that's where goatse is hiding out today
001 [FuckYeah!!!] - Practice safe hex
001 [Freebi Welcome Stranger] - ITSATRAP!
001 [FYdhbDeSZtaXOY9D8GEmws9vP3] - I hope that's not also the guy's password
001 [Clinton Sax Solo] - no thanks, I'll pass
001 [@@ HEYHEY] - Fat Albert??
001 [.: P h U k E t
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
currently I've been naming networks after battlestars so far I have Galactica, Pegasus, and Acropolis with more to come.....
I run an enterprise WiFi system on a sprawling urban campus.
We have about that many "rogue" SSIDs just sitting in one place. We can't fire up a sniffer any where but in the middle of the campus without getting a full screen and a "machine gun" of audible "found something" dings.
Someone had to do it.
"maryimmaculate" and "Virgin Broadband" can be combined and counted as 12.
you know this post has me wondering...
is there a way to use the protocol used to broadcast the SSID (and for a computer to receive it) to send out other arbitrary data?
what if you had a setup where you could broadcast out a stream of udp packets, perhaps a streaming audio file or video file?
I don't know if this would let you do anything you can't already do but i found it interesting anyway.
Not in this list, but probably the best SSIDs I've seen.
Given that all my devices are named after sailing vessels that explored the West Coast of North America during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, my own SSID is "Pacific".
...si hoc legere nimium eruditionis habes...
I love the "Warning, you are affected" one...real educated there
PLZ stop feeding the trolls. K thx bai.
The BT HomeHub mark 1 in the UK uses a sha1 (I think) algorithm for calculating its SSID and key.
You take the hash of the serial number and use the portions like this:
SSIDXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX10DIGITKEY
(though it might be the other way around)
or similar.
SSID is the suffix (e.g. 716F in BTHomeHub-716F)
10DIGITKEY is the WEP key (e.g. 581fdc1977).
This insecurity allows you to look up possible keys for the SSID match in some tables and cut your guessing down to a mere 70 or so guesses for the key.
That is why it's a REALLY good idea to change your SSID and encryption key.
I obviously have a clue. Judges obviously have no clue.
Please cite a court ruling dealing with nothing more than scanning and logging SSIDs. All of the decisions to my knowledge deal with people accessing a unsecured wireless networks, not simply recording the SSIDs. I would be happy (and saddened) for you to prove me wrong if you have evidence that judges have ruled logging the SSIDs of wireless routers to be a criminal offense equal to accessing a computer network without authorization.
I came, I saw, She conquered.
I was surprised to see so few 'Netgear' SSIDs, around here that's 90% of the SSIDs I see, apparently a lot of that is due to Comcast's default config for users who opt for a wifi router. I see a lot of ISP names in that SSID list. I wonder why ISPs see a need to brand users' Wireless APs...free advertising?
As for pop culture references, my SSID (Used almost exclusively for my PSP, but available for visiting devices, like my sister's laptop and PSP.) is NERVHQ. And all my machines are named after the EVA units. (ZEROGOKI, SHOGOKI, NIGOKI, etc.) :P
I recently had to change network topology— again, the first time was when I moved in, and found out that my new cable modem didn't provide internet sharing like my DSL modem did. —and it forced me to get a Wifi AP router instead of using the AP-capable wireless card on my PC. I had a nice little Netgear router someone gave me when I ran into problems with my cable modem, and I was able to find an identical router (With wifi AP) for less than $40. Which was less than I spent on my new network switch. (Finally moved up to gigabit) It's really a nice little router, good web interface, too. Seems like a fairly smart little box.
Friend: "The NIC is misconfigured..." Me: "No prob, I'll just telnet in and fix it." *Silence*
My friend's apartment building has a battle going in their SSIDs. One neighbor made his network "You Suck", so another neighbor countered with "No You Suck" and finally my friend changed hers to read "Shut It You All Suck." ha ha ha ha.
Using the list of SSID's calculate which tram route the OP uses.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by. (Robert Frost, 1916)
Hows this for humor ??? [Jizle Bedizle Mynizle Fashizle]
FragHARD or don't frag at all
I am really dissapointed
I'm positive, don't belive me look at my karma
your in Melbourne!!1 haha i think i found one in your list from one of the sites i support, im going to look for [OriginSAP] to see where this lives :> (should be near Melbourne Central)
Anyone else notice this guy has a copy of his resume on his site as well with all the world to now see including full name birth day places of employment ect... me thinks ignorance is bliss.
I ones I use Black Mesa Vault Tec NetZero_Dialup_WIFI:(
Well you may of course be right about that
one of my neighbors has "pretty pink panties" as his name. I hope I never find out who it is.
I logged into one of those once...
I decided to conclude my frollick of Rumspringa, and embrace my father and mother from my shameful ways encountering these temptations of the Englisch.
I have two embedded computers, one scanning all the available MAC ID's and then they would leach the computer's hostname from their MAC-specific packets. Then it creates a Broadcast IP for a network named after that computer's Hostname, then the other embedded computer will bounce that host off the network it was originally connected onto. When they connect to SSID of their hostname, they get internet access for a little while but then re-routes to 4chan /b/ where for some reason they post pictures of CP.
Then with a USB camera on a servo in the air, the embedded computers triangulates the position of whoever is logging onto my network and take a picture with a camera. The local PD is then eMail'd anonymous pictures and trafick details of the websites visited.
Works every time.
SSID: WORKGROUP
Isn't there anything below Troll??? Like Swamp water and urine troll is standing in?
I already made this. http://wardrivesql.info/ with a 3g connection you can upload the results to a public server or provate server with logins so people can watch you wardrive in real time. :)
I am coding a newer version that uses sqlite instead of mysql to save space on my live cd.