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

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

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"All new is something already known, but well forgotten."

Escaping locked down networks by tunneling things over DNS is one of these things. We've used it back in 00's to get out of restrictive hotel networks. Not even WiFi, but the actual wired Ethernet ones.

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

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> 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 ?

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…

> breaking the law

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

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

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> 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 ?

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…

IMO a certain amount of youthful indiscretion that takes the form of challenging systems and structures feels like it's both tolerable and important. Agitation prevents calcification.

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post #23

I feel like you have to be brave messing with a plane's network. People tend to get really touchy when airplanes are involved.

Imagine if anything essential/of value/useful was exposed on the passengers WiFi, this story could have been a huge scoop. But alas, everything is heavily separated.

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

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post #23

I feel like you have to be brave messing with a plane's network. People tend to get really touchy when airplanes are involved.

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.

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

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tl;dr: The firewall on the plane allows any traffic to pass on port 53 (to allow for DNS queries) but doesn't do any state inspection or rate limiting so you can do whatever you want on it.

> My roommate spent about an hour setting up a proxy server exposing port 53 using xray 1, and sent me the configuration via WeChat:

An hour!? As opposed to just spinning up an sshd on that port and coming in using ssh -D to establish a local socks proxy?

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

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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

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

Well, being pedantic, you could be said to be breaking Civil Law. :)

Jest aside, IANAL but most western countries have some sort of Criminal Law relating to mis-use of computers.

A brief search for Canada reveals Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)[1].

Again IANAL, but from my reading in this scenario it would be (c) -> (a), "uses or causes to be used ... a computer system" to "obtains, directly or indirectly, any computer service".

[1]https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-342.1....

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