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BA was the one who got pwned with a card skimmer script on their checkout page, so this tracks. On the other hand, in-flight Wi-Fi "security" and actual compan
by Nextgrid 1y ago
BA was the one who got pwned with a card skimmer script on their checkout page, so this tracks.
On the other hand, in-flight Wi-Fi "security" and actual company property security don't have anything to do with it. The in-flight Wi-Fi isn't protecting anything, it's just there as an annoyance to get a few extra bucks similarly to catering (and just like the latter, typically outsourced to a third-party which just allows them to white-label it).
- wouldbecouldbe 1y agoIt’s also keeping it working. If they allow open access for everyone it would quickly be unworkable
- Nextgrid 1y agoStarlink-based ones have enough bandwidth for the whole plane to have workable bandwidth (just rate-limit based on client so no single heavy user hogs the entire bandwidth). There's also an European one whose name currently escapes me which uses a custom flavor of LTE and special ground stations that also happily provides hundreds of mbps. Capacity is primarily an issue on the legacy BGAN-based ones where you have a handful of mbps for the entire plane.
- latentpot 1y agoThat's EAN, also used by BA as the backhaul.
- pbhjpbhj 1y agoYou can do 100s of mbps with a flag and a pair of binoculars... Sorry, pet peeve: do you mean MB/s, Mb/s, or something else? Probably not the milli-bits per second (mbps) that you wrote.
- esskay 1y agoSadly most planes still run on legacy systems, it's not something that's ever a priority.
- wouldbecouldbe 1y agoYes those are awesome