Yeah, I suggest you Google 'Comcast' 'Sandvine' and 'BitTorrent' sometime. You might be surprised.

in order to exploit this. Yeah, not really seeing the big deal.

That's what the ground controller was telling the pilots, and I believe it. I've had to sit through a deicing process while boarded on a CRJ900 before, and it was about 20 minutes. The heavies are way bigger, and since they have to inspect the body after deicing to make sure they got it all, thats alot more plane to cover, so I can believe it takes longer.

The thing that surprised me is that the airport apparently doesnt have any deicing trunks. If you pull up a map of the airport, the area marked Ramp 20 are the deicing pads. Seems like it'd be a hell of alot more efficient to roll some decing trucks and hit the plane while it's at the gate.

That would be a valid question if it wasn't for the fact that problems at Hartsfield have a bigger effect than just the area of the country that rarely drops below freezing.

Busiest airport in the US. The only way you get to that state is by landing and departing a very large number of flights. There aren't enough flights in the southeast to garner that distinction, so when Hartsfield is fucked up, its more than just the southeast that's fucked up. Gotta stop thinking of Atlanta as just a georgia airport, its a hell of alot more important in domestic travel than that.

... won't someone please go all Darth Vader on his ass?

I was stuck at Hartsfield for 11 hours last week thanks to the snowstorm that hit Atlanta.

The snow wasn't all that bad. The problem was that the planes had to be deiced before they could take off. Hartsfield only has 4 de-icing pads. It takes about 15 to 20 minutes to de-ice a regional jet, about an hour to de-ice one of the heavies. I was listening to ground control pretty much the entire time (thank you LiveATC app), and it was a mess. Pilots weren't responding to directions properly, creating an even bigger traffic jam. There was no clear order in which the planes were going to be de-iced, it was decided by the airlines based on priority of flight and the order wasnt always communicated to the ground control tower, so the ground controllers couldn't even line them up in the order they were going to be de-iced. This combined with the lack of speed to de-ice the planes led to a number of flights having to return to the gate in order to avoid tripping over the 3 hour rule. This also resulted in other flights not pushing back from the gates, since once they close that cabin door, the 3 hour countdown begins. Incoming flights were delayed or cancelled because there weren't gates open for their passengers, and since inbound flights were getting cancelled, outbound flights were as well since the planes that would be servicing those outbound flights were no longer inbound.

It became apparent to me that this wasn't a weather problem. It was a major inefficiency in airline operations. Yeah, I know, it's Georgia (I lived in the Atlanta metro area for over 2 decades) and it doesn't snow that often, but you'd think the busiest airport in the US would be better equipped to handle something like de-icing planes, especially given the ripple effect that disruptions at Hartsfield has on not just US transport, but globally as well. The international disruption isn't that bad, those flights can be diverted pretty easily, but domestic flight? There aren't any nearby airports that are even close to capable of handling the load that Hartsfield does.

And then today there's a major power outage that disrupts one of the busiest travel weekends of the year.

Maybe now they'll pay attention and revamp Hartsfield's operations so that it doesn't fuck everyone plans up.

This may be valid as a backup internet solution. In my house, 180GB per month is certainly not enough, I doubt that would last a week. Not with 5 people and 4 Roku's and my Linux ISO downloading habit.

However, I'm in the rural SouthEast US, and I only have one internet provider (cable) available. My only backup solutions would be using an LTE modem, or resorting to HughesNet for Satellite. Which wouldn't be bad as backup solutions, but the cost for the meager amount of bandwidth they provide and the fact that it would cost more per month than my primary Internet feed, well, that's just a non-starter.

However, I suspect that given the nearness required for their high freq deployment, my location means that their 5G deployment won't make it my way anytime soon even if the cost is reasonable.

Yeah, I did something similar. new 55in Samsung SmartTV.

DirecTV box went on HDMI1, PS4 went on HDMI2, Roku went on HDMI3.

Wired it into the switch to update the firmware, disconnected immediately afterward.

I'd wanted to avoid a SmartTV if at all possible, but the fact of the matter is that with the local stock available and pricing, it was far more cost effective to buy the SmartTV and just leave it disconnected than it was to purposely hunt down a non-SmartTV with the specs I wanted

That would assume that I bought them, used them, and one day decided to just go ahead and update the firmware for kicks.

No, the firmware got updated about 5 minutes after being powered on for the first time. If the firmware update caused a problem, it would have been pretty obvious in the days following, since I put the TV's through their intended use cases, and they would have gone back into the box and back to the store.

What you're describing is much more likely if I had been dumb enough to leave them with network connectivity and set themselves to auto update.

I just recently bought a pair of 55in Samsung Smart TVs

They each connected to the internet once for firmware updates, and were immediately disconnected afterwards. Unless there's a problem that requires me to update their firmware again, they won't ever be connected again.

All of the apps that the TV offers are already present on my Roku's and quite franky, the Roku's do it better

The Roku's do like to send data back to Roku's log servers.

However, that's easily preventable. I use PiHole to blacklist their telemetry domains and it doesn't interfere with the normal operation of the box

Cellebrite isn't infallible.

Then the airlines are going to lose a horrible amount of business. There's no way in hell I'm letting my personal laptop or work laptop out of my possession during travel. I will simply drive (I have to get a rental when I get to the location anyway) or I will take an alternate mode of transportation such as a bus or train. It may take a little longer, and will likely make my employer unhappy, but have to draw the line somewhere.

It's not a single attack vector. There are multiple CVE's for this. Some attack vectors do involve the AP, most involve the client. Both should be patched.

So reading through the article, it looks like he was smart enough to get rid of the records of his access on the logging servers, but got caught because he forgot to clear the logging buffers on the network gear.

Hope it was worth it!