I was thinking “Vladimir LANin”
boring answer: do not broadcast an SSID
How do you have friends who visit log into your WiFi?
easy, i dont!
Don’t do this, your phone will periodically ask for hidden SSIDs everywhere you go, making you easy to track passively.
How does that make you easier to track?
Unless you turn off WiFi, phones are always searching for WiFi anyway.
Most devices actively ask around for the hidden SSIDs they know about. As in, they send a broadcast in cleartext called a “probe request” containing the list of hidden SSIDs every time they scan for access points.
Today usually the scans use randomised MAC addressess for privacy, but that doesn’t help if you have any hidden SSIDs stored because of this list. Places like shopping malls are known to use these beacons to track the movements of individual people.
Before 802.11w (that still works almost always because 802.11w tends to be deactivated for compatibility), there was a trivial way to “unmask” a hidden SSID, you have to wait for someone to talk to the target access point, send a disassociation frame to the victim, and wait for the probe request / response when the victim automatically reconnects.
Another contender is “five year LAN”
Wu Tang Lan
Bill Wi the Science Fi
If your devices all support Unicode in SSIDs, “Perfectly Normal WiFi” in Mandarin.
FBI Surveillance Van #x is always a classic
Havana Syndrome Ray Gun Emitter
wifi network
Boo
Flowers By Irene
“Beanis Connection”
:agony:
Okay now this is epic
beanis
I think Gerald would be a nice name for a wifi network
My hotspot’s name is “Searching…”
Got my best friend like 5 times with it.
While LAN puns are always good, these days I’m thinking “fuck it be explicit” so how about ‘Execute all cops’?
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