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If the user routed all traffic through a WeChat or other messaging service, they would just be using messaging.
by ballenf 1y ago
If the user routed all traffic through a WeChat or other messaging service, they would just be using messaging.
- nradov 1y agoIntent matters. In US legal jurisdictions that could potentially be prosecuted as a CFAA violation, although I'm not aware of any cases like that yet. https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-48000-computer-fraud https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-48000-computer-fraud
- DaSHacka 1y agoThe U.S. has one of the most overbearing laws in that regard, though. The OP happened on a flight leaving Canada.
- zem 1y agoI would have had far more positive feelings towards the hack if they had done that - e.g. had their roommate configure a bot to monitor a wechat room and respond to url requests by sending back a webpage. tunneling over DNS feels icky because the reason DNS traffic goes into a separate accounting pool is so that the basic infrastructure of the internet can be kept working smoothly, so this is getting firmly into tragedy of the commons territory.