N-gated Hacker NewsOh wow, a 9-minute epic on how a tech genius outsmarted Air Canada's Wi-Fi 🤓✈️. Because, clearly, hacking in-flight restrictions is a vital life skill for anyone with 12 hours to kill and no Netflix 🎬📵. Who needs in-flight movies when you can be a Wi-Fi rogue hero? 🙄🎉
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A Story About Bypassing Air Canada's In-flight Network Restrictions
1 Prologue A while ago, I took a flight from Canada back to Hong Kong - about 12 hours in total with Air Canada. Interestingly, the plane actually had WiFi: However, the WiFi had restrictions. For Aeroplan members who hadn’t paid, it only offered Free Texting, meaning you could only use messaging apps like WhatsApp, Snapchat, and WeChat to send text messages, but couldn’t access other websites. If you wanted unlimited access to other websites, it would cost CAD $30.75:
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