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Yes it’s real and have times and threat models ever changed

I’ll spell it out for you guys - CBP provides open free WiFi in the immigration line at the airport where the typical person with no mobile service is on a visa.

This is a very different consideration now in the era of wiping phones than three years ago.

@hacks4pancakes My guess is that this isn't intended for broad surreptitious surveillance (which would run into Title III problems), but rather to have a network available for when they tell you to unlock your phone and log in to your social media accounts.
@mattblaze @hacks4pancakes Need citizens going thru with flippers doing deauth attacks (even just dropping one under a trashcan or chair).

@dalias @mattblaze @hacks4pancakes

It's an Open network. Why perform deauths when you can (absentmindedly) run an AP with the same SSID that drops all packets!

@mattblaze @hacks4pancakes more benignly, there’s also the Mobile Passport Control app.
@_dm @mattblaze there were plenty of reasons to install it, and now plenty of ways to horribly abuse it.
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Probably also for when they ask you for the address of your hotel