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

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165 points samray | 2 comments | 10 Oct 25 07:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.412s | 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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eps ◴[10 Oct 25 12:23 UTC] No.45538161[source]▶
> breaking the law

Not law per se. More like contractual obligations taken upon by connecting to the flight's WiFi.

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1. hluska ◴[10 Oct 25 18:34 UTC] No.45542237[source]▶
This is theft. Stealing is illegal. Giving a blueprint for how you stole is the icing on the prosecutorial cake because you can’t claim lack of knowledge if you create a conspiracy to enable the theft.

This may be the dumbest write up I have ever read.

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2. brailsafe ◴[10 Oct 25 21:58 UTC] No.45544268[source]▶
The nature of the non-transaction was such that they were given access to a service that was constrained in certain ways. They used the service, and the constraints that AC technically applied still applied. They used what was available to them under the constraints and weren't required to pay for any other service but the removal of the constraints. I don't see how any theft occurred.

Likewise illegality is just a boring and simple way to dismiss someone on moral grounds, but laws are only as effective as the level of agreement people have with them. Drinking in the park is technically illegal, but I don't care, the police don't care, nobody cares, unless someone needs to care, and I'm going to do it anyway, because the law does not make drinking in the park inherently wrong, it just provides a framework for telling you to stop if you're interfering with others in a way that relates to alcohol consumption.