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cherokeeprogressive

(24,853 posts) Mon May 2, 2016, 01:29 PM May 2016

Be careful of what you name your Wi-Fi hotspot LOL. [View all]

Say you're sitting at the gate in a running 757 waiting to pull from the gate and you check to see if there's a Wi-Fi hotspot nearby when you see THIS on your cellphone...

Hotspot name: "Mobile Detonation Device"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/02/wi-fi-hotspot-named-detonation-device-causes-bomb-scare-at-melbo/

What do you do?

Named a router "FBI Surveillance Vehicle" a few years back and was talking to a neighbor who said his wife had driven the neighborhood looking for suspicious vehicles... I changed it to "GOTCHA".

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Be careful of what you name your Wi-Fi hotspot LOL. [View all] cherokeeprogressive May 2016 OP

LOL on the "FBI Surveillance Vehicle" CrispyQ May 2016 #1

I saw one labeled DEASurveillanceVan in a South Austin neighborhood. hobbit709 May 2016 #2

Mine is "NSA Listening Post", FoxNewsSucks May 2016 #3

Some of those are hilarious. nt cherokeeprogressive May 2016 #7

Like the on that says -none May 2016 #20

One of my neighbors uses SwankyXomb May 2016 #11

Of course I named mine Blue Dalek May 2016 #4

Is your router edhopper May 2016 #12

No, but it is wibbly wobbly Blue Dalek May 2016 #17

hah! shanti May 2016 #5

TellMyWifiLoveHer NuclearDem May 2016 #6

Good one! nt cherokeeprogressive May 2016 #8

Thanks! I hadn't seen a lot of those FoxNewsSucks May 2016 #9

"You Kids Get Off My LAN" is brilliant (nt) muriel_volestrangler May 2016 #15

ThisHiltonHasBedbugs meow2u3 May 2016 #22

Who still broadcasts their ssid? NightWatcher May 2016 #10

Someone in my neighborhood uses "FBI Survalence (sic) Van" lpbk2713 May 2016 #13

Someone in our neighborhood does too... ScreamingMeemie May 2016 #14

I think DU may have been where I got the idea actually. nt cherokeeprogressive May 2016 #16

PrettyFlyForAWifi - this is one of my neighbors Beaverhausen May 2016 #18

I'm gonna have to think something up and pull this So Far From Heaven May 2016 #19

That could have been really, really bad. By which I mean, off the wall LEO reaction bad. ladyVet May 2016 #21

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2016 #23

Spam deleted by MIR Team sanket Oct 2016 #24