Best Wireless SSIDs You Have Seen? 684
Ant writes "Best SSIDs you have seen is the name of the new Broadband Reports' wireless security forum.
Funny ones listed that made me chuckle: WardriversOpenAP,
GET LOST,
HackedAP,
SecureAP (no WEP/WPA), TOP_SECRET, HPD-FieldOffice,
MiddleEarth, HoneyPot, mine, and people's full/last name." I think naming your network 'Default' or 'Linksys' should be a crime ;)
My neighborhood (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:What (Score:2, Informative)
The knowledge of cable and DSL there is much better than what I see on
Re:Best SSID (Score:4, Informative)
The best SSID ... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:My neighborhood (Score:1, Informative)
false sense of security with MAC filtering (Score:1, Informative)
Not that this is your problem, you're doing far more than most and I applaude such - but do blame the vendors for giving you substandard encryption/encryption options.
Re:Best SSID (Score:3, Informative)
Re:My neighborhood (Score:1, Informative)
Really. I can't beleive that you'd screw with other people's property like that. I have a public AP with simple passwords so we technical folks of the community can all deal with problems as they crop up. If you screwed with it, it would cost me a couple hours of time to fix the issue costing me a couple hundred dollars of lost billable time. Similar cost to the cost you will incure to get your windshield repaired when I bust it up with my softball bat.
Joe
Re:My neighborhood (Score:4, Informative)
Remember we're talking about the kind of end-users who set their password to their kids birthday and STILL manage to forget it. Actually expecting them to accurately transcribe a 20 digit alphanumeric string off the box (which they probably threw away immediately, along with the manual) is asking a bit much, and getting them to read the RIGHT number off a sticker on the unit (which likely has a half-dozen different numbers on it)
Totally useless and ineffective. (Score:2, Informative)
All disabling SSID broadcast will do is to prevent your SSID from showing up in Windows little list of "available networks". This might prevent the little old lady next door from connecting to your system by accident, but it does absolutely nothing in terms of security.
Re:Why I'm A Bastard (Score:2, Informative)
Create a forward zone called "." (no quotes), and a domain called "*" within that zone, and create a new host in that domain with no name, pointing it to whatever IP you want it to. (That's MS DNS Server -- see the link below for BIND)
That'll redirect top-level domains to whatever IP you want. Then use mod_rewrite if you redirected it to your own web server, to strip all the URL information off of it, so that it always goes to "mypicutre.png".
I would post a sample, but I've got too many junk characters in it.
Use this page: http://www.freebsdfreaks.net/articles/fake_dns.ph
for more info.