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by Qub3d 3256 days ago
Yeah, which is why it is sometimes weirdly safer to not change your SSID - a cracker can assume that someone who figured out how to change the broadcast name could've also changed the WiFi password... often to something much less secure.
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SSID is used for password hashing, so better change it from default to avoid rainbow tables.