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Bryce Boe
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Bryce Boe's personal blog at bryceboe.com covers programming and web. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Bypassing Gogo’s Inflight Internet Authentication”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this 2012 post for a way to get Gogo in-flight wifi for free, including a workaround that reached Google IPs past the captive portal. Commenters cite it in discussions of Gogo's SSL certificate injection.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Bryce Boe
Most-linked posts?
- Bypassing Gogo’s Inflight Internet Authentication3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-03-13
- /2012/03/12/bypassing-gogos-inflight-internet-authentication/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-05
What Hacker News says?
I wonder if it's related to this workaround that allowed access to some Google IPs to bypass the captive portal, which someone managed to then use to access app engine, and a proxy running there to reach the entire internet: http://bryceboe.com/2012/03/12/bypassing-gogos-inflight-inte... quote from that article: "There is, of course, one other possible solution: Gogo could man-in-the-middle the desired Google web se…
Comment linking /2012/03/12/bypassing-gogos-inflight-internet-authentication/
on “Gogo injects false SSL certificates for google.com domains”Submitted Bypassing Gogo’s Inflight Internet Authentication as a story · 115 points
HN discussionThis is a mistake on Gogo's part. I can't think of anything legitimate they could do using this that they couldn't also do in a more reasonable way. The illegitimate things they could conceivably do with this (if they wanted to do, which seems unlikely), they can't do reliably or without getting quickly discovered. A lot of people are going to see the pinned browser warning and wonder what's up. Of course, that this…
Comment linking /2012/03/12/bypassing-gogos-inflight-internet-authentication/
on “Gogo injects false SSL certificates for google.com domains”Submitted Using StackOverflow’s API to Find the Top Web Frameworks as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHere's a completely different solution to using Gogo for free that doesn't involve piggy-backing on someone else's purchase: http://www.bryceboe.com/2012/03/12/bypassing-gogos-inflight-...
Comment linking /2012/03/12/bypassing-gogos-inflight-internet-authentication/
on “How to get Gogo in-flight wireless internet for free”Submitted Bypassing Gogo’s Inflight Internet Authentication as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Properly Handling the Keyboard Interrupt Exception within a Python C Module as a story · 1 points
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