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Planet Fitness Evacuated After WiFi Network Named 'Remote Detonator' Causes Scare (windsorstar.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Windsor Star: A Michigan gym patron looking for a Wi-Fi connection found one named "remote detonator," prompting an evacuation and precautionary search of the facility by a bomb-sniffing dog. The Saginaw News reports nothing was found in the search Sunday at Planet Fitness in Saginaw Township, about 85 miles (140 kilometers) northwest of Detroit. Saginaw Township police Chief Donald Pussehl says the patron brought the Wi-Fi connection's name to the attention of a manager, who evacuated the building and called police. The gym was closed for about three hours as police responded. Pussehl says there's "no crime or threat," so no charges are expected. He notes people often have odd names for WiFi connections. Planet Fitness says the manager was following company procedure for when there's suspicion about a safety issue.
My mobile hotspot SSID is, "ERR:Buf overrun; restart WiFi".
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My mom was having issues with the encryption on her wireless network, so I set it to no paraphrase so I could get her a new router (a few days while it came in the mail). In the meantime I set her wireless SSID to "disabled" and told her "nobody will try to connect to it, because of that name."
She called me a couple times a day to tell me "my wireless isn't working - because it says disabled" even though she could open a browser and get online.
Lesson learned. Thanks mom!
Mine is GetOffMyLANKids.