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In-Flight Wi-Fi Makes its Debut
mindless4210 writes "German airline Lufthansa will become the first carrier to provide Boeing's Connexion service to its passengers. The service will be unveiled on May 17 on non-stop flights from Munich to Los Angeles, with plans to outfit their entire fleet over the next year. Passengers will be able to purchase access using their credit cards and Wi-Fi enabled laptops. The cost is set at $30 for the entire flight or $10 for 30 minutes."
mid-air LAN party!!
Does this mean that us nerds can now join the "mile high club"?
Any use for plane to plane communications? quickly sending your vital stats, etc. or just as a log of who you have passed.
Can't wait till someone acidentally starts controlling the plane with MS Flight simulator
"Pull up!, Pull up!"
Business Voyeur
I used to look forward to flights because it gave me time to get lost in a book while sipping some whiskey. now I'll be answering (and dealing with) crap from work? I'm not sure if I'll do this; some times you just can't reach me (this is why all of my phones are off when I'm asleep).
CVS
free ipod and free gmail!
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
I can see people who don't want to pay for the connection sniffing someone's traffic, then cloning their MAC address and surfing for free after the guy switches off.
What are the odds that VoIP ports are either blocked or the latency makes it unusable? The airline industry has put quite a bit of effort into explaining why Airphone is The Only Right Way to talk from a plane.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we must ask that you not use your laptop as a phone over the internet as it... may cause cancer."
put two wifi cards in your laptop and run an open "ap", and everyone with you (or optionally, everyone) can use the service for the price of just you.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
...before we start hearing horror stories about sitting next to sketchy guys who are checking out pr0n on the plane?
May 17th.
I get around this restriction by bringing aboard my trusty old victrola.
Dogma - "let's just say we'd like to avoid any empirical entanglements."
the airfare, which on any flight is ample
You can cross the country for ~$200. That's cheap by any standard. Seriously. how can you say that airlines are overcharging and should be adding services for free. The idea that you can get from New York to LA in 6 hours. That is madness. Tell that to the pioneers that took 6 months and spent hundreds of dollars (in 1850's money) and they would shit a brick.
If anything you should get free airplane flights with your starbucks. They are the ones overcharging. $2-3 for a cup of coffee. At that price it better come with some pr0n.
I tried for 5 years to come up with a clever sig...only to realize that I am not clever.
Bah...
I'm getting decent speeds by taking three airphones (three seat wide section) and using a uunet dialup account to bind all three together using ppp multilink. I just charge the airtime back to my company!
I tried to use more phones from the passengers seats infront and behind me....but the cords are too short! DAMN!!
OK, to do security one must think like the bad guys. So let us put on our black hats for a moment.
/me removes black hat
Only fairly well off people will fork over $30 to feed their Internet addiction - most of all the super-type-A types who cannot tell the difference between "being busy" and "being productive".
Most of those people will be running Windows, probably Win98 or WinXP.
So, if I just sit back, wait for them to get their mail, sniff the password they use for email, and then use that password in an attempt to access their computer, I will probably get right in.
Then I can Trojan their machines (for later access to the inside of whatever corporate network they use), download their My Documents folder and desktop, and see what I can dig up.
The beautiful thing about this is that I have every excuse to be close to these people for extended period times, then I get off the plane and go my own way, never to cross the guys path again.
Gosh, I am SO glad I am not in IT management....
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