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Did you have permission to do that ? Sounds pretty risky to be probing the network of a flight imo.
by 1B05H1N 3y ago
Did you have permission to do that ? Sounds pretty risky to be probing the network of a flight imo.
- Etheryte 3y agoAre you aware what the website you're currently on is called?
- WendyTheWillow 3y agoHackers talk about ethics and legality all the time!
- jamesbvaughan 3y agoNo permission - just curiosity :) I'm not too concerned about the risk associated with fetching a JSON file that their flight status page is already fetching on a loop. That said, I'm curious what risks you have in mind.
- mulmen 3y ago> That said, I'm curious what risks you have in mind. Overzealous prosecutors.
- fouc 3y agoThere's no "probing the network" involved here. The in-flight webpage was continuously fetching a specific end-point from the in-flight web server. This end-point is basically public data. All he did was duplicate what the webpage was already doing, and then do some basic analysis on the data the end-point was returning.
- mcast 3y agoCybersecurity and internet crime laws are notoriously outdated (created in the 80s). I could see a bad lawyer arguing that cURLing an API repeatedly is “hacking”.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoOr getting tackled by an air marshal when someone sees white text on a black background and yells "hacking!".
- mulmen 3y agoTell it to the judge.
- margalabargala 3y agoDoes one generally require permission to read a sign that someone else posts in a public place?
- system2 3y agoThe signal is already reaching your computer. You are not modifying it. It is the same as listening to radio.