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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 SSID I use is "Honeypot"
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
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.
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.
Sa-Matra
ON DELETE CASCADE
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.
How do you spell that "ch-ch-ch-ch" sound that he makes when he jumps?
Why would slashdotting your own website be illegal?
They are the nation's largest provider of free wifi, with their fierce competitor "dlink" close behind...
Looks like you commented using your phone with the T9 input method! How can I tell? You wrote "me" instead of "of".
I saw one near a Subway restaurant that said "Jared Is Still Fat"
Also died laughing.
"Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steve Wright
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 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 because as everyone knows, Australia is in Europe...
AC should have said "your're" instead of "your"
Your're wrong.
I've patented the copyrighting of names.
Their both right.
rewriting history since 2109
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!
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.
I thought about it.
Sincerely,
Derp
Hilarious. But I just ran out of mod points...
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
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.