My hotspot on my phone is "FBI van 4"

I wonder if I can sell my WiFI AP name to some advertiser...

"ENJOY COCA-COLA"

or more likely

"TOM BRADY SAYS BUY CRYPTO"

"DRINK PEPSI"

One of the hotspots in my flat is called "Honeypot1"

My blog is honeypot.net. It’s always fun to watch people trying to decide whether to click that link.

In the early days of insecure WiFi, in apartment buildings you would see network names like "Don't steal our WiFi Room 238!"

I see this joke frequently when looking at available wifi; is this meme a reference to a particular thing (other than the FBI having surveillance vans) or did a bunch of people just converge onto it?

Some years ago there was a lot of stuff on 4Chan about “FBI party van”, “vanned”, v&, etc. I’m guessing that’s part of where it has come from.

I've never seen it. Maybe it's spreading like a fungus from wifi to wifi in certain regions.

I saw it as a meme years a go. I sadly don't know the origin.

Hey! I'm FBI and NSA Guest :)

I just set mine to the RDS name of some local FM station..

Bluetooth on my old phone is named as "Pfizer-BioNTech chip #<formatteddigits>" :D

I like this idea, but any sophisticated attacker will ignore the Bluetooth names and just pull vendors off the MAC addresses. Though it would be interesting if you can define the Bluetooth MAC addressees in software to match your fake names :)

I used to do something similar with my router. I would run an AP called "Linksys" or something common and give it an OUI belonging to Cisco. It probably had no benefit (maybe even harmful!), but it was fun to "disguise" my OpenBSD router as a common off the shelf router.

I name my computer: 'router'

To be fair, it probably will route if you ask it.