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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.