The Real Threat on Your Flight Isn’t Terrorism β It’s the Guy in 14B With a Fake Wi-Fi Network
A Delta passenger created a fake Wi-Fi network mid-flight, impersonating the airline’s official network and harvesting data from everyone who connected. The attack required no sophisticated hacking β just a pocket router and a believable network name. Here’s why inflight Wi-Fi security is fundamentally broken, and why you should treat every airplane network as hostile by default.