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How is this different from trying a door handle to see if it's open.

• Nextgrid 7y ago
  In this case the “door handle” is marked with “pull to access the internet”, and he is pulling on it. The handle is supposed to have a mechanism to demand payment before opening but in this case it failed and opened right away. Not saying this is ethical (although selling WiFi for 12$ per hour isn’t either) but I wouldn’t go as far as calling this an attack.
  • kortilla 7y ago
    >although selling WiFi for 12$ per hour isn’t either Care to elaborate on this? WiFi on a plane isn’t any kind of thing people are dependent on to survive and satellites are pretty expensive. Airplane WiFi is entirely a luxury good. Do you feel that charging $12 to watch a movie in a theatre is unethical as well? How about $150k for a Porsche?
    • vengefulduck 7y ago
      The problem is airplane WiFi has a captive audience with no competition so they can charge unfair rates and there is no free market to balance it.
      • somethingnot 7y ago
        So if you go to the top of a mountain and there is a single cabin selling water there, at outrageous prices, you would just help yourself to one bottle, because hey, no competition, captive audience.
    • Nextgrid 7y ago
      The problem is that it’s $12 for an hour, regardless of whether you end up using it, or whether it works at all (do you get a guaranteed bandwidth along with that, and is there some BS filter that’s gonna interfere with certain sites or protocols despite you having paid?). Finally it’s just way too expensive at that price.