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Is this a long running joke among IT network people?

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Posted : 24/06/2024 9:18 am
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deep state infrastructure - all runs out of that secret nuclear bunker


 
Posted : 24/06/2024 9:38 am
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Our neighbours have their WiFi named as "Hidden Network". He is a very odd man that works in IT, so I'm guessing it's hilarious to him


 
Posted : 24/06/2024 10:50 am
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Friends have their WiFi named "we can hear you shagging"


 
Posted : 24/06/2024 10:53 am
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"police/mi5/cia surveillance van " is also is popular unfunny one


 
Posted : 24/06/2024 12:29 pm
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“police/mi5/cia surveillance van ” is also is popular unfunny one

I had similar as my Wi-Fi hotspot name on my phone.  It is deeply unfunny, but it amused me for about 30 seconds and I CBA to change it.

I've never come across "hidden network" (somewhat ironically), I wonder if there's an urban myth saying that if you call it that then it will actually be hidden?


 
Posted : 24/06/2024 1:04 pm
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Friends have their WiFi named “we can hear you shagging”

A few years back, when out in the back yard I'd often hear SQUEAK-squeak SQUEAK-squeak SQUEAK-squeak like a rusty bed.  It'd go on for half an hour or more, sometimes multiple times a day.  I went from thinking "damn that boy's got some stamina" to "christ, he must be red raw."

Then one day I realised, next door but one had bought their kids a trampoline.


 
Posted : 24/06/2024 1:07 pm
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I’d assumed it was just a network that wasn’t broadcasting it’s SSID?


 
Posted : 24/06/2024 1:33 pm
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I’d assumed it was just a network that wasn’t broadcasting it’s SSID?

Boo to the sensible (but probably true) answer.


 
Posted : 24/06/2024 6:55 pm
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[i]Friends have their WiFi named “we can hear you shagging[/i] - Change yours to "We are swingers, come on round and join us"


 
Posted : 24/06/2024 11:10 pm
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Just a buried ethernet cable?


 
Posted : 25/06/2024 11:02 am
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About 20 years ago when I split with my then g/f I moved into a flat next to a Russian whose WiFi was Soviet Union.


 
Posted : 25/06/2024 12:08 pm
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Ive given my wifi exactly the same name as next doors just to mess with them.


 
Posted : 25/06/2024 12:48 pm
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Mine's named "Kiss my grass" after a "lawn dispute" with the neighbour


 
Posted : 25/06/2024 2:15 pm