Best Wireless SSIDs You Have Seen?

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 ;)

In a local coffee shop...

[DigitalGodBoy]

Found one that said "SECURE_ME". A quick Windows share enumeration showed sales data and presumably credit card information avaliable to anyone who was listening.

I informed the business owner that it needed to the secured, and he said his ISP had called and asked him about an "open access point - whatever that is". I sighed and left.

Strange ones I've seen

[a_nonamiss]

Not trying to be funny here, but I've seen HACKME and my boss insists that I use his last name so that he can remember it. (Even though it's broadcasted.)

I just hope he doesn't get mad at me when he gets hacked and someone starts downloading child porn and The Anarchist's Cookbook using his broadband connection.

What

[Rexz]

A single, not particularly busy thread on a fairly obscure webpage. Linked from the front page of Slashdot.

Seriously?

NEWSFLASH: SOMEONE WHO PLAYS EVERQUEST DOESN'T KNOW WHICH CASE TO CHOOSE [ezboard.com]

The best

[CypherXero]

is "linksys". From that point, I know that the AP is unsecured, and has a default admin password. I visit a cafe a lot in my town, and they have wireless internet that you have to PAY for, and it's like $20/hour, which is ridiculous to pay that much for wireless internet access. But what's more amusing is that it's unencrypted AND still has the default password to the admin console. I feel sorry for anyone who's paying that $20 to surf the web there.

Well even though mine is cloaked...

[gamorck]

I can't speak for many others but my SSID is "KeepDrivingAsshole" - I've also seen one in my wardriving travels called, "LeaveMeAlone". Apparently somebody had already had a bit of fun with his network, eh?

Sorry...

[IO ERROR]

Mine is "Sorry, the network is down right now." with MAC filtering enabled. Nobody ever stops to play with my AP.

Search for SSID Names at WiFiMaps.com

[drewzhrodague]

YOu can search for SSIDs, MACs, and cities and states at WiFiMaps.com [wifimaps.com]. Funniest ones I've seen:

hellostumbler - Framingham, MA
buyclamsonline.com - Pittsburgh, PA

Re:Strange ones I've seen

[dmayle]

someone starts downloading child porn and The Anarchist's Cookbook

Why are these two even in the same sentence? The Anarchist's Cookbook is legal to peruse and distribute. Most of the things you can learn from it can be used for shady purposes, but the information is still protected by the first ammendment...

Discussion of how to copy DVDs, however...

Re:Address

[R.Caley]

DNS name of the box, with .s changed to -s. Very obvious which one is which that way, and if you have a half way reasonable domain people who need to know will know it is yours.

Of course, then you have to come up with a decent DNS name. Mine is `gaga', because it was all I can hear due to the nice heavy masonry walls of these traditional blocks.

Re:Why I'm A Bastard

[agraupe]

Wow... you have my undying gratitude and respect for that. How did you do that, out of curiosity? This would be a welcome solution for many wardriver-victims... post a guide, perhaps?

Re:Why I'm A Bastard

[Bagels]

I know that my netgear router is configurable to redirect addresses with given strings in them... just set one to ".com", ".org", etc., and watch the havoc that ensues, I'd guess.

WarTraining is c00l

[KE1LR]

During a trip last year on the Acela [amtrak.com] I ran NetStumbler for a couple of hours as we cruised toward Washington DC and was able to find hundreds of access points. Here are a couple of the interesting SSID's from the log:

• KeepDemBussesRollin (passing a state DOT building)
• Don't mooch off my shit
• testing-testing-testing

It was also common to use what looked like a business name or the a person's first name ("lisa") as the SSID. Some AP's had random alphanumerics or what was obviously an attempt at a password for the SSID.

I also did a very basic analysis of some of the interesting things I discovered, such as...

• Most AP's were advertising 11Mbit speed but about 16% advertised higher speeds. I'm not sure if the higher speeds were "a" networks, "g" networks or both. My laptop had an a/b wireless card.

• 1/3 of the AP's detected were using what was obviously their vendor's default SSID (i.e. "Linksys" "default" "NETGEAR")

• >60% of all AP's detected were not running WEP of any kind, but more than half of the Cisco AP's had WEP enabled (probably because end-users generally don't run Cisco stuff).

• Vendor breakdown (no they don't add up to 100%)
  • Linksys 38%
  • Cisco 17%
  • NetGear 11%
  • D-Link 6%
  • Symbol 4%
  • Apple 2%
  • Microsoft 2%
  • Proxim/Agere/Orinoco 2%
  • Belkin 1.5%
  • BreezeNet 1.5%
  • ... and a bunch of others that only appeared once or twice like Addtron, Sercomm,Gemtek, Z-Com, etc.

The sample size for this was about 250 AP's during the outbound trip. On the return trip I ran NetStumbler for a lerger portion of the ride and recorded over 1000 AP's (some of which were duplicates of course) but I haven't taken the time to anlyze this larger data set yet.

I didn't try to connect to any of the AP's... most of them would come and go within a few seconds anyway. :)

How about...

[Murf In Wyoming]

"IfUcanReadThisUR2Close" ?

Someone's street address

[hqm]

I was sitting in a car in a residential neighborhood Palo Alto, looking for a wireless AP to read me email. Someone's AP was labeled with their street address, which made it easy to drive up in front of their house for better reception.

Re:My neighborhood

[Anonymous Coward]

I also logged onto a neighbors router that used the default password. I checked the logs and they hadn't logged into their router's config site since they set it up, so I changed the password and have been administering the router since.

Now I have access to port forwarding, etc. Also, sometimes when the connection isn't working, I'll restart the router for them... As far as I'm concerned, I'm helping them out!

Anyway, speaking of interesting SSIDs, this router I've pirated is called "SkullDuggery"!

Re:I laughed my ass off at this one:

[Clinton]

Whenever I setup a secure AP for someone, I always set the SSID to "NOTYOURS". It's still surprising to see how many people try to make it theirs when I read the logs tho....