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Alexander Turcic · 07-15-2005, 05:35 AM

I don't think the US government would want to stop in-flight WiFi, simply because it would hurt Boeing (who put a lot of money into its Connexion program) and Boeing is one of the government's darlings.

But what could happen is that feds will log all traffic connections. Not that this seems very useful to me, since, as I mentioned with some sarcasm, it wouldn't stop people from using secure Internet connections (e.g. through a SSH2 tunnel) which seem very unlikely to be sniffed.

07-15-2005, 05:35 AM	#3
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	I don't think the US government would want to stop in-flight WiFi, simply because it would hurt Boeing (who put a lot of money into its Connexion program) and Boeing is one of the government's darlings. But what could happen is that feds will log all traffic connections. Not that this seems very useful to me, since, as I mentioned with some sarcasm, it wouldn't stop people from using secure Internet connections (e.g. through a SSH2 tunnel) which seem very unlikely to be sniffed.