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A story about bypassing air Canada's in-flight network restrictions

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134 points samray | 4 comments | 10 Oct 25 07:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.63s | source
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traceroute66 ◴[10 Oct 25 11:36 UTC] No.45537711[source]▶
> We affirm our strict adherence to all relevant regulations and service terms throughout this project.

Except if you bypassed payment and used the service in a manner that was not intended, most likely you were by definition not undertaking "strict adherance" to service terms ?

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VladVladikoff ◴[10 Oct 25 12:06 UTC] No.45537995[source]▶
Yeah I am a bit confused about posts like this. It’s bragging about breaking the law. There was a particularly bad one a few months ago where a kid had hacked Monster’s employee training site, and was sharing all this internal media in the post. I don’t understand how they don’t end up getting in some seriously annoying trouble with law enforcement. Well I looked it up just now and the post was deleted, I guess maybe he did get in trouble. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44997145
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1. CaptainOfCoit ◴[10 Oct 25 12:09 UTC] No.45538023[source]▶
Could also just be lack of knowledge. Weren't we all a bit more risky and playful with other people's websites when we were kids and the internet was still accessed via modems? Remember talking about that with both other kids and adults without getting in trouble, but it was also decades ago. Once I saw others getting in real big trouble (like prison), then I kind of tried to find more beneficial ways of learning programming and computers.
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2. traceroute66 ◴[10 Oct 25 12:18 UTC] No.45538117[source]▶
> Could also just be lack of knowledge.

Huh ?

DNS tunneling is not exaclty something you do "by accident".

And if the person doing it on the flight "did not know" (which, given the text of the blog, I doubt) , then you can bet your botom dollar that the "roommate" that was summoned for remote assistance knew very well what was going on.

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3. CaptainOfCoit ◴[10 Oct 25 12:21 UTC] No.45538138[source]▶
Didn't claim so either, but a lack of knowledge about that it is in fact illegal, hence the parallel to at least my previous experience where I've most surely have committed crimes in the past, because I didn't know it was illegal in the first place.

I don't know the age of the author, but it almost doesn't matter, sometimes people don't know (lack of knowledge).

4. gus_massa ◴[10 Oct 25 13:28 UTC] No.45538764[source]▶
> Remember talking about that with both other kids and adults without getting in trouble.

A few kids doesnt matter. A few adults is only a problem if it's their stuff (If they are teachers, they will care more about unautorized changes of the wallpaper in the computer of the school that anything in a remote computer.) And yuo can even later claim they misunderstood or you were exagerating.

But here is an in written report in front of thousands of persons and about planes that is a sensitive topic.