Are WiFi Network Names Protected by the First Amendment?
Michigan police were called at a Planet Fitness gym earlier this month to investigate a bomb threat that ended up being only a prank after a naughty user named his WiFi network "Remote Detonator."
The gym patron spotted the suspicious WiFi network name and called the police, following the gym's normal procedures. The gym re-opened the same day, three hours later, after bomb-sniffing dogs swept the building without finding any explosive devices.
"Everything is perfectly legal from a police standpoint," Saginaw Township Police Chief Donald Pussehl told a local paper.
