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

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162 points samray | 1 comments | 10 Oct 25 07:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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bawolff ◴[10 Oct 25 12:24 UTC] No.45538170[source]▶
I feel like you have to be brave messing with a plane's network. People tend to get really touchy when airplanes are involved.
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reactordev ◴[10 Oct 25 12:29 UTC] No.45538204[source]▶
I was going to say this too.

I once merely mentioned the words “Heart Attack” on a plane and was kicked off by the flight attendants. No context, they just heard the words and forced me off.

There are things that trigger them because of laws and regulations like mentioning “bomb” (even if you’re describing something fantastic).

So messing with the gogo flight entertainment is up there with flirting with terrorism charges.

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yabones ◴[10 Oct 25 12:44 UTC] No.45538357[source]▶
I'm pretty "curious" when it comes to public networks. I'll scan coffee shops, stadiums, hotels, bus hotspots, anything I can connect to. Some networks are set up well, others not so much.

I would never in a thousand years run a sweep on an airplane network. That's massively risky, to the point you might never be allowed on a jet again. Anything to do with aviation I am on my absolute best behaviour.

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1. ActorNightly ◴[10 Oct 25 16:42 UTC] No.45540896[source]▶
The router is 100% separated from the rest of the plane, and has a fuse on the power. You can't really mess anything up and the only chance of you getting caught is if you somehow manage to ddos the network.

The fun thing to do on the plane is clone the wifi and add an option to log in with google or meta or apple credentials....