[duckqlz]

If any lawyers or FAA employees are reading this I’m genuinely interested in what, if any, legal implications there would be for running nmap mid flight on an airline. Surely once you have spoofed the MAC address and IP of another passenger to gain unauthorized access to the planes LAN you have committed a crime but what about passively scanning?

[phyzome]

nmap is not a "passive scan". You might be thinking of packet capture?

[masukomi]

are you asking if its a crime to read information they've publicly broadcast?

Because if that's a crime we're screwed because then it's illegal to read, or listen.

[marktangotango]

We should not be surprised how much ignorance there is around this. Networking even for technical people can be a "black art".

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/31/22861188/missouri-govern...