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Yes the key to doing this more seamlessly is to spoof both the IP and the MAC so your machines are not constantly fighting with the other person over the ARP table entry.
Aren't you then fighting the switch's port learning? Or RSTing each other's TCP connections?
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Aren't you then fighting the switch's port learning? Or RSTing each other's TCP connections?
Its wifi. You both just pick up the same frame when it is broadcast, then it sees two stations (a level below IP) with the same MAC. Most routers just don't care about that. (it's technically a valid edge case that two stations have the same mac address. It should be vanishingly rare in the wild ... but this is a practical example of why it isn't).
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Honestly, it seems pretty fair to me. If I'm a careful, occasional driver, and the insurance company otherwise has no way of knowing that, then they have to bill me like I'm commuting every day in stop and go traffic, distracted by podcasts and who knows what else. There will probably always be a "premium" market for no-questions-asked insurance, but if the company can give me a break on my rate based on my driving b…
At it's face, yea, it sounds fair, and the more data you feed to the actuarial tables, the more accurately they can identify the specific cost of insuring that driver. My concern is that it's a tragedy of the commons type situation: this normalizes data surveillance. We have no idea exactly what data the device is transmitting, and what the insurance company will do with that data. Regulations protecting this data ar…
On the other hand, I suppose I'm a bad person to make this argument since I actually dislike personal automobiles for a whole host of reasons, so I'd just as soon get back my privacy by walking, cycling, and using mass transit.
Here is how to get the equivalent data on a Delta flight. $ curl https://wifi.delta.com/api/flight-data | jq % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 448 100 448 0 0 5600 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 5743 { "timestamp": "2023-07-11T14:54:41Z", "eta": "17:48", "flightDuration": 278, "flightNumber": "DAL786", "latitude": 39.723472595214844, "longitude": -97…
I’m on a flight right now and just went to this URL. Sure enough, it works!
I know this information is available via the wifi portal’s UI, but a JSON blob just hits different.
```
{"timestamp":"2023-09-28T21:57:39Z","eta":"23:45","flightDuration":164,"flightNumber":"DAL992","latitude":47.4557876586914,"longitude":-111.73490905761719,"noseId":"3883","paState":false,"vehicleId":"N883DN","destination":"KMSP","origin":"KSEA","flightId":"N883DN_SF_20230928195737","airspeed":null,"airTemperature":null,"altitude":35273,"distanceToGo":13,"doorState":"Closed","groundspeed":499,"heading":95,"timeToGo":107,"wheelWeightState":"Off"}
```
Apologies for the JSON formatting, I’m on mobile.
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This is what I did about 7-8 years ago on flights when I was still a reckless teenager. Would just wait for people to buy the plan, then spoof their Mac address. There was also a specific airline, although I can't remember which one, which let me in for free without MAC spoofing - by using a Google Cloud VPN I had previously set up. The paywall was essentially blocking all IP ranges except for Google servers for Goog…
Took an airline that required an app to pay to connect… but also opened up a window of a few minutes of open access to let you download said app from the iStore. I always wondered if there was a way to further exploit that.
When my son was younger - maybe 9 or 10 or so, we were on a plane and he was using his phone and I looked over his shoulder and realized he was on the internet... but I hadn't paid for an internet plan. I said, "son, how are you using the internet?" He said, "oh, a kid at school showed me - if you go here" (he opened up the wifi settings where the DHCP assigned IP address is) "and start changing the numbers, eventual…
This is generally in contrast to other instances of public Wifi.
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Its wifi. You both just pick up the same frame when it is broadcast, then it sees two stations (a level below IP) with the same MAC. Most routers just don't care about that. (it's technically a valid edge case that two stations have the same mac address. It should be vanishingly rare in the wild ... but this is a practical example of why it isn't).
If there's multiple hotspots behind the same controller, you may well get switch port fighting.
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A plane going up and down 20-30 feet seems like it would be very unpleasant. Considering that there's longitude and latitude, isn't it more likely that the altitude is coming from GPS, which is notoriously inaccurate with regards to elevation?
When you take off, you're going up at a rate of 500 fpm to 2000 fpm. Even if you go from +1000 fpm to -1000 fpm over the course of several seconds, you aren't going to feel much. At cruise altitude, you're moving along at 500 mph, which is 777 feet per second. So going from +30 feet to -30 feet in a minute is just an adjustment of only about 5 degrees. You'd barely feel it, even walking down the isle. An acceleration…
You would pretty obviously feel a change in pitch of 5° walking down the aisle.
You mixed feet per second and feet per minute. 60 feet of change across 777 feet of run is about 4.5° (inverse sin(60/777)), such as you'd experience if the change was in 1 second instead of in 1 minute.
Calculating 60' change in 777*60 feet, inverse sin (60/(777*60)) is 0.07°, which is why you don't feel that change in inclination of the aisle.
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I've noticed that airline wifi doesn't block DNS traffic. You can likely accomplish the same thing with a DNS tunnel like Iodine ( https://github.com/yarrick/iodine ).
Many years ago, I noticed I could browse the Google Play Store on a flight WiFi without paying for it. No images would load and no apps would download, but I could browse through app listings and read reviews. Would this be related to DNS?