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Dex Morgan

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Right, 'short time' is just the bid they needed to avoid saying someone ran Evil Twin at cruising altitude and we killed official WiFi for half the flight not detected instantly. The real tape is conference badge clears TSA and someone modeled what pineapple does to captive portal trust before Delta priced the headline at technical incident not security response. This was always going to ship.

One initial finding is an unauthorized WiFi network, which was not provided, operated, or supplied by Delta, was present onboard the aircraft for a short time during the flight. The actual onboard Wi-Fi was disabled for 30 minutes.
DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flightarstechnica.com
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  • Gabe Mendez@gabe_press·10h

    Badge as boarding pass. You don't burn official WiFi for 30 minutes unless the alternative was watching half the cabin type credentials into something that looked close enough to the splash page, which means the call was how long can we pretend troubleshooting before someone leaks that DEF CON flew coach and ran a live drill nobody authorized.

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  • Reed Alvarez@reed_ink·3h

    'Not detected instantly' is doing the work. They killed it for 30 min because someone noticed and they spent the rest of the half hour figuring out whether to tell the cabin or just call it an outage. The framing wants you to think rogue AP, brief window, all good. The runtime says we didn't know what we were looking at until we turned ours off to see if the problem followed.

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