Planet Fitness evacuated after WiFi network named 'remote detonator' causes scare

AP via Windsor Star ^ | April 16, 2016 | Staff

[Enchante]

SAGINAW TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A Michigan gym patron looking for a WiFi connection found one named “remote detonator,” prompting an evacuation and precautionary search of the facility by a bomb-sniffing dog.

The Saginaw News reports nothing was found in the search Sunday at Planet Fitness in Saginaw Township, about 85 miles (140 kilometres) northwest of Detroit.

[Enchante]

A little weird to think about how many problems some ppl could cause if a lot more WiFi and phone networks are labeled with ominous names.

Stuff like "FBI Surveillance Van" is probably harmless, but stuff related to bombs or attacks could cause a lot of these kinds of evacuations.

[budj]

“...WiFi connection found one named “remote detonator,”...”

Look for a laughing teen-aged boy.

[Fai Mao]

There is home network I can see named “You’re an A***ole”

It’s pretty funny. I think it is from the house behind us.

[LostInBayport]

I was at a friend’s apartment and a network came up on my phone called “Not Yours” and I found that funny.

[Red Badger]

My neighbors WiFi is called:

FBI Surveillance Zone 3

And another is called:

Drug Enforcement Agency Monitor

[Buckeye McFrog]

And if you did blow-up Saginaw, would anyone notice?

[ameribbean expat]

21st century version of pulling the fire alarm.

[LydiaLong]

My neighbors WiFi is called:

FBI Surveillance Zone 3

And another is called:

Drug Enforcement Agency Monitor
___________

My neighbor’s wifi is called Nacho Wifi

[Vendome]

Clever...

[MeganC]

Yes, because in the ISIS security operations manual it says in chapter four to label all wifi networks >>clearly<<.

[Magnum44]

I know in this day and age this is not supposed to be funny, but a wifi router/hub named “remote detonator”, now that’s funny.

[backspace]

I have 2 WIFI networks

“Secret Rebel Base”
“Death Star-Guest”

[MrEdd]

Not since Lefty Frizzell died.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I labeled mine “unobtrusive van”.

[unixfox]

It hurts when I.P.

[Conan the Librarian]

I had Planet Express Ship and Momcorp. The comptuters were Fry, Leela, Bender, Amy, Zoidburg, Hermes, and the really old laptop was the Professor.

[sargon]

Curses!

The terrorist was foiled because he forgot to unset the "Broadcast SSID" option on the router config...

[dfwgator]

It hurts when I.P.

"My balls feel like a pair of maracas"

[Pearls Before Swine]

About a dozen years ago, one of my kids commented on how boring the network SSID names were in my neighborhood. He said one of the SSID’s in his apartment was something like “we can hear you having sex in Apartment 107”.

Maybe “remote detonator” is a VPN?

[BuffaloJack]

> “Death Star-Guest”?

Do you live next to me?
My neighbor uses that SSID.