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Why would the government collect Wi-Fi SSIDs via manual door-to-door questioning of citizens?
I live in a country with little freedom on the Internet (not as strict as in China, but some sites, particularly anti-government sites are inaccessible without a VPN). Recently the government just went collecting the Wi-Fi names of every house. I had to fill in my name, my address and my Wi-Fi name. I didn't have to to provide the password. Every house needed to fill in the survey. They refused to tell the reason.
My questions are:
- Why would they do that?
- If I can change my Wi-Fi name, or even the modem, whenever I want, then why would they do that? Should I do that right now?
- To my knowledge*, once the password is passed, changing new password on the same modem won't help. However, I'm not sure that after they have gained the access on my modem, what can they do? Can they open the backdoor or something?
*I used to install Kali to break Wi-Fi passwords for fun, but unfortunately I didn't pass the first test of the tutorial. :( After I found out that all tutorials only give me a part of solution, I was lazy to try again.
