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RE: Security issue? Free Public WiFi Ad Hoc network broadcast Aug 08 2006 11:45PM
David Gillett (gillettdavid fhda edu)
Note that *stumbler will, by default, show all of the SSIDs in
the traffic. There's an option to only see the ones that are
being advertised.

What you're seeing is (or was, when *I* saw it here) clients
sending out requests looking for that SSID. Unless somebody offers
to honour those request...

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