Well, he had advanced warning that he was under FBI surveillance and casually shrugged it off. A post on his Facebook page reveals he and a friend detected an entry for “FBI_SURVEILLANCE_VAN” while scanning for local wireless networks.
Instead of reacting with fear, horror and paranoia about possibly being tracked, the teen casually called the discovery “weird” and LMAO-ed about it. [Slashdot]
Craig
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 4:51 PMVery covert of the FBI.
Joel
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 4:58 PMhttp://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/08/10-quirky-names-for-your-wi-fi-network/
Read comments. Real FBI or random neighbour. I’d imagine the FBI isn’t that stupid.
stevjosco
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 5:07 PMI thought the exact same thing. Probably a LH reader lives near the guy.
Ads
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 5:09 PMAgreed, this was the first thing i thought..
Gorf
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 5:12 PMHe must of been paranoid of getting caught. Any normal person would have just disregarded it.
Jack
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 10:01 PMMine used to be
“Virus Download 100%”
Francis M
Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 2:25 AMmmmm wonder what happens if I set my ID to ‘Svetlana Novotina, enter bank details as access key’
David
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 11:33 PMMy neighbours often comment about the new wireless routers that have appeared in our area recently – ASIO_VAN_1 and ASIO_VAN_2. They are not always there, and Van 2 appears only rarely.
I got bored of the usual names :)
Sky Bolt
Friday, August 19, 2011 at 8:13 PMIt could have been a clever double-bluff by the FBI. “We’d have to be pretty stupid to make our wifi network so obvious. However, if people assume we’re not that stupid…”