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There'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-p
by fouc 3y ago
There'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- mcast 3y agoCybersecurity and internet crime laws are notoriously outdated (created in the 80s).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.