Person who lives diagonally across the street from me uses their last name as their wifi SSID. I never met these people or knew where they lived, but I just confirmed this was their last name because they accidentally gave my address to their health insurance company who sent ID cards to my house.
I had seen this SSID in my scans before, so it only took 5 seconds of searching to find their actual address.
Also, those Google Nest devices seem to have very good range, but it's odd that both APs are using the same frequency.
@voltronic Agreed, trying to teach my kids that as well in any online presence that "whatever you put on the internet is forever"
On a lighter note, using %p%s%s%s%s%n" as SSID is also not such a good idea. 🤔
@arasaigh
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It's a great idea if you are trying to keep all iOS devices off your network, but not very nice for the owners of those devices who try to connect. It seems you can achieve the same effect with just "%s%s%s".
My point to all this is:
Don't use something personally identifying as a SSID.
Yes, in this case it allowed me to easily return those ID cards to their rightful owner, but you don't want to give people with ill intent any footholds into your life for free.