Ah the humble service set identifier! It seems to have grown from a simple way for access points to identify themselves to potential clients to a little public bulletin board for airing one’s grievances toward noisy neighbors or showcasing one’s wit.
What notable SSIDs have you run into out in the wild or created yourself?
Buddy had one of those barely FCC compliant wifi “debugger” boards, so for a while we actually had an entire armada of FBI surveillance vehicles, vans, and a helicopter on every 2.4ghz channel lol.
I dont know if fake SSID advertisements really impede actual stations, but it was pretty funny seeing 15 SSIDs coming from a single, almost thumbstick size board.
It’s literally just a packet with the ssid and related info in it, shouted into the void. It becomes an issue if you shout so much that other people’s traffic is effectively jammed, otherwise, have fun.
Maybe you could get a wifi channel to yourself by adding a bunch of fake AP’s on the same channel, and having your neighbouring routers automatically switch to a “less crowded” channel.
They might use more heuristics than just the number of ssid’s advertised on a channel though.