Re: Does anyone respect a Wi-Fi Access Point SSID with _optout_ or _nomap anymore?

Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> I used to be a computer consultant and would occasionally run into
> _nomap appended SSID's.  I've never seen _optout.  Maybe 5 routers out
> of several hundred.  I just greped some 2 year old sniffer logs, which
> contain about 5,000 unique SSID's, and found 15 _nomap and 0 _optout
> entries.  Only one of my customers has ever asked to have _nomap
> added.  He read some article on security which recommended it.  I
> talked him out of it.
> 
> NOMAP is slang of a pedophile.  In the three situations where the
> router SSID ended in _NOMAP, one of my tasks was to change it so
> something less offensive.
> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/NOMAP>
> Whether this has anything to do with it not being used is unknown.

Much or most slang is limited to a limited number of countries.
And lots of words that are innocent in a language can be dirty
or offending in other countries. I doubt if many people in the
US or UK would take offfense to "nomap" in an SSID.

> Owners of home routers usually do not have a problem with an SSID
> ending in _optout or _nomap.

Why would they care about any "extension" in an SSID?

>  However, house guests and visitors seem to have some difficulty
> dealing with the concept and would invariably ask why it's there.

Really?

-p