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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by louison11 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:57PM (#37694023)
This is what I did about 7-8 years ago on flights when I was still a reckless teenager. Would just wait for people to buy the plan, then spoof their Mac address. There was also a specific airline, although I can't remember which one, which let me in for free without MAC spoofing - by using a Google Cloud VPN I had previously set up. The paywall was essentially blocking all IP ranges except for Google servers for Google Analytics.
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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by ApolloFortyNine on Thursday September 28, 2023 @04:22PM (#37695298)
Similar is probably possible on cruise ships, I noticed on Carnival you could still get notifications from discord (I assume because most android notifications go through cloud messaging and it's required for their own app to work without internet).
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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by Scoundreller on Thursday September 28, 2023 @04:44PM (#37695555)
Took an airline that required an app to pay to connect… but also opened up a window of a few minutes of open access to let you download said app from the iStore.

I always wondered if there was a way to further exploit that.

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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by withinboredom on Thursday September 28, 2023 @06:06PM (#37696498)
IIRC (assuming it was the same airline), it didn't close existing connections once the time ran out, so you'd just ssh to a server and proxy through that. When/if the connection dropped, you'd just change your mac address and start over.
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