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by johannitsa 4022 days ago
I have some friends in California who use the combination of their kids' names for wifi password. It would seem to be an easy one to remember. But in reality it's only the idea that stays remembered because it's not just names but Russian nicknames formed with suffixes and transliterated into English using inconsistent rules.

California is an awesome place! I'm always happy to visit my friends over there. Manage to do it once or twice every year. So far, wifi password never stayed saved in my phone for one reason or other. Failing to enter it correctly several times and asking for help has been a consistently awkward experience.

So I perfectly understand why this would be a nice feature. The drawbacks? Someone using your access point for something shady? How would they do that, parking on someone else's driveway in a residential district? That's too suspicious and would probably attract more unwanted attention than doing that from your own access point at home.