Neighbor Sued Over Refusing to Share WiFi Password

[Mark_K5LXP]

I was fooled by AI

Maybe you're AI and fooling us?

Mark B.
Albuquerque, NM

 

[Trivet]

My wifi password is 'NSASurveillanceVan1'

More fun is to name your wifi network something like that. For many years the hotspot in our RV was called "FBI Surveillance Van" and sometimes when we were around other RVs, somebody would come by and say, "Are you the FBI surveillance van?"

Before that, when we had an expensive motosat internet dish, we called the network "Get Your Own Dish." Kind of hostile, but I thought it was funny.

I remember when there were no passwords... you could find a host in most neighborhoods if you needed to look something up, simply drive down the street and your computer/phone would show you the strong signals and let you sign on.

Then, paranoia hit the earth...

I remember those days. War driving. I learned that the best place to go was a brand new neighborhood, where pretty much every house had an unsecured internet connection.

But I don't think paranoia is what stopped it. At the beginning, the default on routers was not being password protected, and you had to kind of know what you were doing to know that might be an issue and do something about it. So almost all of them were unsecured, and accessible by anyone in the vicinity.

Then the default became that routers did have a password, which was a good thing because few people understood the dangers of an unsecured internet connection.

Or, it was a good thing for them. It was terrible for people war driving.

 

[Derby6]

Now I have to rename my network. Thanks Trivet. LOL

 

[Wasillaguy]

For many years now my home network name has been in regard to my neighbor who blatantly ignores covenants of the Subdivision.
HOA is inactive and I really don't want it active, so it's my little way of letting him (and maybe 2 other neighbors in range) know how great it is to have him around.

 

[UTTransplant]

I remember a number of years back when I discovered my neighbor had an unsecured wifi. I mentioned it to him, and he said something like, oh no, it is fully secured, I had my friend who works in the computer store install it. Sure dude. I brought up my Blackberry (remember those) and showed him it was open to the entire world as I connected to it. Oops! He fixed it a few days later. People just didn’t think security because they didn’t realize the potential impact of other people using their network. Network piracy with Napster and Tor, hijacking networks for child porn rings, etc has definitely made more people aware. But I must admit I enjoy seeing the names of my neighbor’s wifi networks, especially those in campgrounds. They are all nicely locked, but one is currently “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Bandwidth.” That is one somewhere near our house. We have also had all the possibilities of government agencies and things like GETOFFMYNETWORK.

 

[NY_Dutch]

I remember a number of years back when I discovered my neighbor had an unsecured wifi. I mentioned it to him, and he said something like, oh no, it is fully secured, I had my friend who works in the computer store install it. Sure dude. I brought up my Blackberry (remember those) and showed him it was open to the entire world as I connected to it. Oops! He fixed it a few days later. People just didn’t think security because they didn’t realize the potential impact of other people using their network. Network piracy with Napster and Tor, hijacking networks for child porn rings, etc has definitely made more people aware. But I must admit I enjoy seeing the names of my neighbor’s wifi networks, especially those in campgrounds. They are all nicely locked, but one is currently “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Bandwidth.” That is one somewhere near our house. We have also had all the possibilities of government agencies and things like GETOFFMYNETWORK.

One of my neighbors uses "pennygetyourownwifi". Big Bang Theory fans will know what that's about.

 

[Trivet]

I can't remember--is AI changing thread titles, or is it people? This one was originally "Neighbor Sued Over Refusing to Share WiFi Password" and has become "Lying is now the new way to tell the truth." What does that even mean, generally, or especially with respect to the discussion, which I assume is what prompts a title change.

I swear, I'm about to give up on the internet.

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[NY_Dutch]

I can't remember--is AI changing thread titles, or is it people? This one was originally "Neighbor Sued Over Refusing to Share WiFi Password" and has become "Lying is now the new way to tell the truth." What does that even mean, generally, or especially with respect to the discussion, which I assume is what prompts a title change.

I swear, I'm about to give up on the internet.

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It still shows "Neighbor Sued..." here.

 

[UTTransplant]

I can't remember--is AI changing thread titles, or is it people? This one was originally "Neighbor Sued Over Refusing to Share WiFi Password" and has become "Lying is now the new way to tell the truth." What does that even mean, generally, or especially with respect to the discussion, which I assume is what prompts a title change.

I swear, I'm about to give up on the internet.

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It is AI changing the titles. The OP can’t do that. I have all the AI turned off on my account and the title is still the original “Lying is now …” Drives me nuts.

 

[NY_Dutch]

This is what I'm seeing:

 

[UTTransplant]

And here’s mine. The difference is I have AI turned off in my preferences for the forum.

 

[NY_Dutch]

And here’s mine. The difference is I have AI turned off in my preferences for the forum.

Yes, whether AI is enabled or not does make the difference. I don't understand why disabling AI though, gives us an irrelevant subject line.

 

[Seilerbird]

Yes, whether AI is enabled or not does make the difference. I don't understand why disabling AI though, gives us an irrelevant subject line.

I fail to see the importance of all this.

 

[NY_Dutch]

I fail to see the importance of all this.

Just trying to sort a strange anomaly, Tom.

 

[UTTransplant]

I fail to see the importance of all this.

Then you can ignore it.

 

[Trivet]

I'm having trouble telling who's on first.

I had it backwards originally. I thought the original title was "Neighbor Sued Over Refusing to Share WiFi Password," and that it became "Lying is now the new way to tell the truth."

It turns out I saw one of these before I was logged in, and the other one after. I have AI turned off in my preferences.

So "Lying is now the new way to tell the truth" was the original title, and "Neighbor Sued Over Refusing to Share WiFi Password" is the AI title. In which case irony presents itself, because my original complaint, that AI made the title worse, is wrong. The title I said made no sense was written by the OP.

So you'd think I'm be in favor of AI improving titles. But I'm not, because I'm here, and actually anywhere on the internet, to see what people are saying, and how they say it helps me judge the content.

Never mind that this whole thing had me thinking I'd lost my mind, which happens all too often these days on the internet. I knew what I'd seen, and it was no longer there. And my Firefox history proved that I'd seen what I thought I'd seen, but it wasn't what I was now seeing.

At least I now understand how it happened. Although I'm not a fan, at all, of people visiting the same site not seeing the same thing. I have AI turned off, but it's possible someone who doesn't reads the AI summary and starts talking about what's in that, but I haven't seen that.

Never mind that the AI summary was generated on June 11, and hasn't been updated. So there's no indication in the summary that the video is about a fake situation. Then again, we all know AI's troubled relationship with what's real and what's not, so...business as usual?

Better would be for the AI summary to be updated when, you know, it needs to "learn" that the video is fiction. But that just means more churning in the AI datacenter. With the only alternative being letting AI be wrong in the interest of not gobbling even more resources.

 

[Tom]

Better would be for the AI summary to be updated when, you know, it needs to "learn" that the video is fiction. But that just means more churning in the AI datacenter. With the only alternative being letting AI be wrong in the interest of not gobbling even more resources.

The site team has a "regenerate" button. Just for the heck of it I clicked the button. It needed a couple of clicks to recognize that the video might be 'fictional'. Hopefully this tool will improve over time.

 

[Tulecreeper]

I don't remember my wi-fi password. My phone and my computer remember it for me.

I have set my browser(s) to never remember passwords or pre-fill forms.

 

[Tulecreeper]

A conclusion based on fact is not always factual when the facts are chosen to support the desired" conclusion

"How many votes do we need to win?" "It doesn't matter. We will keep counting until we have enough."

 

[Tulecreeper]

To anyone that needs it, my WiFi password is BR-549

Hee Haw!