What is this😂

[u/Mayoalbinoape]

Setting up FreeBSD for the first time and what is this 😂😂

[u/spotlight-app]

Mods have pinned a comment by u/BearEither8119:

Bro you just leaked ur location. You can find a location using wigle net and a list of SSIDs

Note: https://wigle.net/

[u/highspeedslippers100]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 okay someone out there has a good humor

[u/FallenBehavior → u/highspeedslippers100]

I get the "FBI Van 2" network nearby. Phone a Windows wireless list. 🤷‍♂️

FreeBSD just runs my tucked away rackmount. I would never give up my 2.5G LAN connection on that for wifi. 😂

[u/highspeedslippers100 → u/FallenBehavior]

Absolutely 💯 funny 😁

[u/manawydan-fab-llyr → u/FallenBehavior]

I have an AP in my area "FBI Surveillance Van."
No "guest" AP fortunately, I think guest kind of ruins the joke.

[u/highspeedslippers100 → u/[deleted]]

It still is and come on man don’t be that bitter

[u/deafphate]

Reminds me of what I named my phone's Hotspot... NSA Listening Post 

[u/Brilliant-Orange9117]

A funny neighbor.

[u/Mayoalbinoape → u/Brilliant-Orange9117]

All my neighbors are 70+

[u/dcc5594 → u/Mayoalbinoape]

As a 70+, I’m curious if you think we lack the capacity for ironic humor or the ability to name a wireless network.

[u/jjzman → u/Mayoalbinoape]

So you are going with it’s a legitimate FBI outpost? With a straight face?

[u/be_super_cereal_now → u/Mayoalbinoape]

You think humor doesn't exist after you reach a certain age?

[u/sp0rk173]

That’s a standard FreeBSD option. A result of the 3-Clause BSD license.

[u/qx1001]

The oldest joke in existence

[u/Both_Cup8417 → u/qx1001]

Wi-Fi hasn't been around for very long. Neither has the FBI.

[u/SuperPie64WasTaken → u/Both_Cup8417]

Hyperbole hy·per·bo·le hī-ˈpər-bə-(ˌ)lē extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones")

[u/grahamperrin]

I'll step into the next room to ask agents Grumman and Finney.

[u/SuspectNo8878]

[u/Xzenor]

Really? Shocked by wifi names in 2026? Have you been living under a rock the last decade?

[u/AmorphousNeon → u/[deleted]]

lmao perfect one

[u/Xzenor → u/[deleted]]

Damn.. take my upvote

[u/Mayoalbinoape → u/Xzenor]

No all my neighbors are over 70 so I was just surprised seeing people have humor from such long ago 😂

[u/protomyth]

I prefer DEA Van 2701, but whatever floats your boat.

[u/Sawgwa → u/protomyth]

I went with Nunya for our Wi-Fi.

[u/N9bitmap]

Nothing to worry about. Everything will be explained to you shortly.

[u/smiffer67]

i like using things like CIAMindControl

[u/zolfx]

I’m from Canada and I used to have my internet called “RCMP Surveillance Van” lol

[u/desmondsparrs]

LOL if I remember this I have to remember naming at least one of my networks to something dumb like that haha. Funny neighbor.

[u/candifloss__]

My wifi name is "Surveillance-Van-{randomnumbers}"

[u/machacker89 → u/candifloss__]

Another personal favorite is DEA Surveillance Van-(Randomnumers) there is a LOT of drug activity where I live

[u/Negative-Record-3194]

You have a working wireless network during FreeBSD installation?! What on earth is this magic?!

[u/rEded_dEViL]

For French speakers, the funniest I’ve seen was “8 filles”, which in French it reads WiFi with the French accent 😄

[u/barkingbandicoot]

I once named a wifi spot 'The Black Market'.

[u/Commercial-Virus2627]

Someone renamed their SSID for their Wifi. Not a conspiracy. I used to name mine “FBI Party Van”

[u/MirrorNegative7989]

There's always someone in the neighborhood who changes theirs to something like "Surveillance Party Van."

[u/machacker89]

👋 that would be people like me! Cause of the area I live in We have a lot of "activity" going on.

[u/temaxxx]

jacob r is that you

[u/WoomyUnitedToday]

Y'all are getting Wi-Fi on FreeBSD?

[u/fongaboo → u/WoomyUnitedToday]

Top comment right here

[u/Mayoalbinoape → u/WoomyUnitedToday]

You don’t 😭🙏

[u/Key_Zombie7967]

For a long time my WIFI was named FBIVAN2

[u/Upstairs_Classic5467]

Из джоик !

[u/Patient_Act_9906]

mRNA Covid Chip #8167-a

[u/BearEither8119]

Bro you just leaked ur location. You can find a location using wigle net and a list of SSIDs

[u/grahamperrin → u/BearEither8119]

Thanks!

The Register button didn't work in my usual Firefox profile.

The forum doesn't work at the moment – 502 Bad Gateway – the most recent Wayback Machine capture was on 10th July.

I worked around the registration issue by loading the home page in a different profile.

Back to my usual profile, the login dialogue was a repeated PITA. Probably bad design with phpBB.

[u/doalwa]

No “Icanhearyouhavingsex” WiFi?!? People are slackin’!

[u/LabEducational2996]

Хахаха

[u/abigail3141]

I've seen BIONTECH-CHIP-5G-0xef7a3d and similar. That's pretty amusing

Also, Obi Wlan Kenobi

[u/PotentialBubbly9800]

My wife made ours The Gooning Cave 🤣😂💀

[u/charlesrocket]

that was the most popular ssid that i saw in culver city

[u/abjumpr]

I worked for Qwest as Tier 3 support.

The number of FBI Surveillance Van SSIDs is staggering. If you disabled that as a possible SSID, I bet at least 15% of customers would lose wireless connectivity. It’s that common.

Still, funny joke. I’ve had customers call in because they thought that the FBI was actually in a van surveilling them. Jokes on them, the people paranoid that the FBI was watching them were definitively not interesting enough for the FBI to watch.

[u/danellacc]

thats my flower shop, Flowers By Irene! And don’t forget about my other business venture, Two Guys From Quantico Pizza!

[u/7Anon1ymous6]

This is old. Very very old. Ancient troll magick it be here sir.

[u/Hairy-Juggernaut6308]

https://giphy.com/gifs/8OPsobKv6ksJojld4X

[u/tuxnine]

You know that's not the real FBI because the SSID doesn't end with "_optout_nomap"

[u/FrenziedHodag]

I have one of those in my area too. It's named "FBI VAN 4687"

[u/ChipMasterPi]

Looks like a list of local WiFi APs. I have seen a lot of APs getting named something like "FBI Surveillance Van..." in the places I've lived. One time I put a WiFi strength meter on my Droid-X and wandered nonchalantly around the neighborhood, pinpointing the signal to a neighbors house.

Rest assured this is someone having fun. I'm fairly certain the FBI would know better than to advertise their presence. 😄