DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight(arstechnica.com)
38 pointsby dangle15 hours ago5 comments
  • port-tcp4 hours ago
    I hope people realise this is the potential outcome for their skiddy behaviour.

    https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/man-charged...

    • _--__--__4 hours ago
      alternatively: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htCJTPu8GPE
      • jimt12344 hours ago
        Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.
    • alephnerd4 hours ago
      They never do. This happens every year at BH/Defcon, and they always make an example out of the perp yet someone always does some dumb shenanigans.
      • jetbalsa3 hours ago
        This year we had a really bad RF jammer on 140mhz fucking with the Ham Radio Village/Contest. The story I heard was someone yelled into hardware hacking area that the FCC was coming and the jamming stopped
        • alephnerd3 hours ago
          Hehe. That's hilarious.

          Sadly, the barrier to entry for a lot of script kiddie shit is minimal and apparently common sense ain't common.

          • scrapedface3 hours ago
            The fox hunt players could have found this dumbass in an instant.
        • iwontberude3 hours ago
          [dead]
  • charcircuit10 minutes ago
    >a fake hotspot (“Delta WiFi Fast”), with a phishing landing page “designed to harvest passengers’ personal credentials.”

    It wasn't a fake hotspot. It was a real hotspot with a SSID that potentially infringed Delta's trademark. CFAA doesn't prevent harvesting people's credentials since it's the user's own machine that people are connecting to.

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  • mcny3 hours ago
    Is this really where our law enforcement should be spending its resources? I would say rescuing kittens from trees is a higher priority than this nonsense.

    Also worth noting wherever we get a chance — the Computer Fruad And Abuse Act itself is nonsensical and must be abolished. There is no salvaging it. It must be repealed with no replacement.

    I don't think the FBI has enough agents to play tech support to anyone who doesn't understand how wifi works.

    • skullone15 minutes ago
      People allegedly broadcasting fake SSIDs on a plane to do credential harvesting on a plane shouldn't be prosecuted? Ok...
    • mindslight2 hours ago
      Have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree?

      Still, I agree.