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In-flight Internet service issues fake HTTPS certificate YouTube visitors

12 pointsby seccessover 10 years ago

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yellowappleover 10 years ago
I&#x27;m not sure what&#x27;s more fucked up: the fact that Gogo disallows streaming (of all things) and thus makes their in-flight network effectively useless to the vast majority of users (who, you know, probably want to watch a movie or listen to music while they&#x27;re careening about in Earth&#x27;s atmosphere), or the fact that they&#x27;re using it as an excuse for malicious behavior that doesn&#x27;t even actually address the problem they&#x27;ve inflicted upon themselves (since blocking access to YouTube can be achieved <i>much</i> easier with, you know, actually blocking access to that particular domain at a network level).<p>&gt; &quot;We can assure customers that no user information is being collected when any of these techniques are being used,&quot; [Gogo&#x27;s CTO] wrote. &quot;They are simply ways of making sure all passengers who want to access the Internet in flight have a good experience.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m pretty goddamn sure that having my Youtube (and by extension, Google - thus, email) credentials sniffed does not make for &quot;a good experience&quot;. Anand Chari can piss off with his terrible excuses.