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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by lupire on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:16PM (#37693479)
Does that work if both of you are trying to send/receive packets at the same time?
Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by fragmede on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:29PM (#37693661)
Yeah, the client OS will reject the "bad" packets destined for the other device as unknown.
Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by system2 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:39PM (#37693804)
WiFi signal is received by both. Packages are ignored if they are not requested by either one of the systems. You can also receive anyone else's packages while you are using your internet but ignoring the ones you don't need. (If interested try aircrack-ng.)
Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by ahoka on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:58PM (#37694038)
Only if it’s unencrypted, of course. Rarely the case nowadays.
Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by ruune on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:54PM (#37694891)
If it's important but you got time, you could always save the packets and crack them when quantum computing comes out for consumers. You have to wait a couple of decades probably, but maybe it's worth it
Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by pests on Thursday September 28, 2023 @04:20PM (#37695258)
NSA is already taking care of that in Utah.
Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by angry_octet on Thursday September 28, 2023 @04:53PM (#37695683)
Your computer will still receive the packets from the radio layer, it just won't have the right key to decode the other recipient's traffic.
Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by ahoka on Friday September 29, 2023 @04:56AM (#37701043)
Of course if you don’t sit in a Faraday cage you can receive any electromagnetic waves around you. But you can’t actually receive other users IP packages.