At Feds’ request, GoGo in-flight Wi-Fi service added more spying capabilities

[John Connor]

GoGo's willingness to go beyond the legal requirements of the CALEA is bolstered by its terms of service, which indicate that activating in-flight Wi-Fi authorizes GoGo to “disclose your Personal Information… if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary” to “comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us” or to “protect or defend the rights, property, or safety of GoGo, you, other users, or third parties.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...wi-fi-service-added-more-spying-capabilities/

VPN anyone? Good thing I have a built in SSH server in the router I can call up.

 

[blankslate]

Always assume you are being watched I guess.


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[corkyg]

Been in the security business for 26 years before I retired. I long ago learned that there is no expectation of privacy in anything sent through the ether. Even landlines now are sent by microwave towers and the side lobes are open season. Wi-Fi is another term for wide open.

 

[Captante]

Oh about your privacy sir? I'm afraid you don't have any.

 

[Mushkins]

To be fair, there was never really an expectation of privacy for an in-flight wifi connection. It's a public wifi connection, it's not your infrastructure. If they want to do deep packet inspection on everything sent to and from, they're completely within their rights to do so and you agreed to it when you paid for the service.

I wouldn't expect in-flight wifi to be any more private or secure than Starbucks wifi.

 

[John Connor]

Yeah, whenever I'm at a hotspot I just VPN or use SSH from the SSH server built into my router with DD-WRT.