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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.
I have to admit, I always liked "FBI SURVEILLANCE VAN #34" or something similar.
I used to have a neighbor with "ICanHearYouFucking".
If you over react to every non-incident the cost of reacting exceeds the damage of all the real incidents combined. I've got no idea what you people think "remote detonator" is actually going to do- but there is zero threat here and given the cops apparently agree you need to learn to relax. And cops *ALWAYS* over react.
I hope the pranksters don't learn about the ESP8266. I think those things only cost a few bucks each.
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
Daddy is a little uptight...
Best one I've ever seen...
HideYourKidsHideYourWifi
People are so paranoid these days its ridiculous. Paranoid over germs, the result they created super germs. Paranoid over war, they created super weapons. Children brought up completely shielded from reality that cant cope in the real world... We are our own worst nightmare.
I used to have a neighbor with "ICanHearYouFucking".
You need to rename yours to "ILikeItWhenYouListen"
Abraham Linksys
Have gnu, will travel.
What he saw was the movie "Wargames". Lighten up a bit.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
I'm cheered by Chief Pussehl's reaction. No SWAT team, no one got shot or arrested, he didn't call for new laws, he didn't even say it was a bad idea to call your wifi "Remote Detonator".
My mobile hotspot SSID is, "ERR:Buf overrun; restart WiFi".
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
If you didn't praise him for using a name from War-games, you should go to YOUR room without supper.
Tell him the cool people all know what he did and it was awesome.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
What next, evacuating an entire shopping mall because someone wrote "Bomb" on a sticky note and slapped it on a garbage can?
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!
I used: VIRUS DETECTED
for awhile
Mine is GetOffMyLANKids.
Someone in my apartment block had "It Hurts When IP"
I originally named mine "Oh, we don't have wifi" simply so I could have an amusingly confused conversation when guests ask "what's your wifi network?" I later named mine "What's wifi?" so I could have an even more confusing "who's on first?" style conversation.
Yes, I am kind of a dick.