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http://gawker.com/5832665/do-not-name-your-wifi-network-fbi-...

Spoilers: I live in a very dense apartment building and my wifi network is FBI_Surveillance_Van. I totally thought of it first.



Why even broadcast a signal? You just opening your router to get hacked... I learned that lesson twice.


Conventional wisdom is that turning off SSID broadcasts does absolutely nothing to deter people using hacking tools.


Of course it wouldn't deter a someone with skill but it deters a bunch of people from googling how to use Reaver.

I also filter mac addresses as plan b.


Now I'm curious to find "FBI naming policy chapter V: computer networks"


On that vein, this may help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_Culture_se...

(Iain Banks started with Nervous Energy and went downhill from there.)


I like Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space ship names, such as Nostalgia for Infinity or Gnostic Ascension.


There's one of those in my Jersey City neighborhood.




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