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Re:Gogo injects false SSL certificates for google.com domains by HackinOut on Monday January 05, 2015 @12:00PM (#8839733)
According to tweet author[1], this happened only with Youtube, and was not related to captive portal mechanism whatsoever. So I would side with her on the why: Poor plane internet access was overloaded by videos streamed from Youtube and somebody hacked together a very ugly solution that's going to have bad consequences...

[1] https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/551132865555996673

https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/551096550516994048

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Re:Gogo injects false SSL certificates for google.com domains by persona on Monday January 05, 2015 @05:17PM (#8841601)
Correct! I've checked and it's also doing it for Vimeo, DailyMotion and probably other video sites.
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