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What’s the problem with your neighbor using "your" SSID?

It’s not like anybody can "own" an SSID name, and if you’re using WPA, the only effect would be a few milliseconds longer of initial connection time per device.

Actively running a DoS against your neighbor might or might not be legal, but it sure is petty (and given the above, unnecessary).



when someone follows your wifi around, repeatedly changing thier SSID to match yours, they are doing it on purpose.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35449153

this is called MITM




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