Hi everyone, I was wandering how to bypass plane limitation on WiFi. Companies are offering free WiFi limited to SMS and WhatsApp. Is there anything available to have a complete internet access without paying their 30$ option ?

I tested VPN but no connections seems possible.

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[–] S13Ni@lemmy.studio 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I wouldn't fuck with anything related to flying tbh, since that shit is pretty closely monitored for anything sus.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 14 points 2 years ago

OP, please listen to this.

[–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What are they gonna do? Kick you out of the plane?

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Put you on the no-fly list

[–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I already got there when I opened a Linux terminal and somebody yelled "HE HAS A BOMB"

[–] Sawzall@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did you reply, 'I am the bomb!'?

[–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Yes and then I yelled "it's bombin time" and exploded

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Depends how much work you want to do? You could tunnel a VPN over DNS queries, and that usually works in many networks, cuz they still let you look up DNS entries even if they're not routing your traffic

https://github.com/Intika-VPN-OverDNS

[–] lalo@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had success with iodine, it's slow but it worked.

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I remember seeing some chatter about tunneling over XMPP. Most plane wifi allows chat protocols, and it should be possible to encapsulate your traffic as ascii text in XMPP packets. You "just" need to set up the endpoints to do the bridging.

Of I were to do it, I'd run a a script that sets up a tun/tap interface that everything else on my laptop will communicate through. This script also connects to my xmpp server at home. Any data coming in on the tun/tap is encoded to ascii strings and sent as chat messages to my xmpp server. The same script can also do the reverse. At home a similar script does, mirroring that on my laptop. Make sure prerouting is set up accordingly in both ends.

From what I've seen on planes, it's mostly down to captive portals using mac addresses to track clients. In theory it should also be able to sneak through by spoofing hardware addresses of someone who's paid for the service.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

I'd want to look into where the limitation is.

If it's with DNS, you can just set your local resolver to 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare)
If it's on the port, then you can try tunnelling traffic over port 443 to somewhere that simply relays your traffic onward, like a personal server running SSH on port 443.
If it's on the IP, blocking access to any IPs not in a whitelist of known WhatsApp IPs, you may be SOL.

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 16 points 2 years ago

Hop on a plane between a major city and Las Vegas a couple days before DEFCON and I'm sure someone will know

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://github.com/aleixrodriala/wa-tunnel

[–] 01189998819991197253 3 points 2 years ago

Didn't Facebook block this by limiting the number of messages you can send in a given time period? I remembering reading something about that, but can't remember the context.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

First, you find out how they whitelist whatsapp. Is it IP address? SNI? Restricted DNS?

Of course your seat neighbor is going to see you using hacking tools, call the FA and you'll be arrested when you land.