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SidDithers

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4. Quick!! Delete everything on your hard drive!...

Reply to katmondoo (Original post)

Tue Sep 10, 2013, 08:26 AM

Sep 2013

Nothing to worry about. Some clever person has named their router "FBI Surveillance Van", instead of "Smith Home" or "Jones Office" or whatever.

The real FBI Surveillance Van will have some innocuous name like "linksys".

Sid

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While checking my wireless connection I see [View all] katmondoo Sep 2013 OP

Someone is taking a piss. You can rename yours as "NSA spybot 666" if you like. idwiyo Sep 2013 #1

Somebody is screwing with you Orrex Sep 2013 #2

I think this is a fairly common joke among wireless users IDemo Sep 2013 #3

Quick!! Delete everything on your hard drive!... SidDithers Sep 2013 #4

Best put it down the disposal, just to be safe IDemo Sep 2013 #7

Probably the most popular name used by people.It's a joke. sufrommich Sep 2013 #5

That is what They want you to think... RC Sep 2013 #12

lol! HappyMe Sep 2013 #6

Oopsie! thats my router!! darkangel218 Sep 2013 #8

edited because my post posted twice darkangel218 Sep 2013 #9

A post like this really makes you wonder... Bay Boy Sep 2013 #10

Whoever is doing that might be a DU member? RC Sep 2013 #11

Most likely a teenage boy Marrah_G Sep 2013 #13

Yeah, my neighbor is always doing that sammytko Sep 2013 #14

Clever name for a wireless network. MineralMan Sep 2013 #15