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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by kristopolous on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:22PM (#37693548)
On redeye international flights with exorbitant WiFi fees I'll admit to scanning for MAC addresses, get the top talkers, then come back later when ones been idle for like 15 minutes, presuming the person is asleep and change my mac to take the address and get online.

I just did it for fun, ok fine.

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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by kkyr on Thursday September 28, 2023 @07:21PM (#37697258)
How do you determine who the top talkers are?
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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by sneak on Thursday September 28, 2023 @07:53PM (#37697561)
The wi-fi on planes is not encrypted.
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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by cromka on Friday September 29, 2023 @03:43AM (#37700501)
Even if it was, you’d still see the top talkers
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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by cromka on Friday September 29, 2023 @03:44AM (#37700507)
By setting the WiFi card into monitor mode, and using by e.g. Kismet for data collection.
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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by kristopolous on Friday September 29, 2023 @11:16AM (#37705490)
I did it with tshark but yes this is a pretty easy problem to solve.

I think I even made a script in lua to do it automatically

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