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		fouc on Sept 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight There's no "probing the network" involved here. The in-flight webpage was continuously fetching a specific end-point from the in-flight web server. This end-point is basically public data. All he did was duplicate what the webpage was already doing, and then do some basic analysis on the data the end-point was returning.

mcast on Sept 28, 2023 | [–]

Cybersecurity and internet crime laws are notoriously outdated (created in the 80s). I could see a bad lawyer arguing that cURLing an API repeatedly is “hacking”.

extraduder_ire on Sept 29, 2023 | | [–]

Or getting tackled by an air marshal when someone sees white text on a black background and yells "hacking!".

mulmen on Sept 28, 2023 | [–]

Tell it to the judge.

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