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This is called an evil portal, it's super simple to do - Flipper has inbuilt functionality for this. It's super simple, broadcast an SSID with "Amazon Free Wifi" - when the user connects serve up a simple login page with Amazon logo, prompt for username and password - save the username and password, and just do nothing... end user doesn't understand why it didn't work, but it's too late at this point. Remarkably simple.

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Seems he was able to do the technical part, but not the not getting caught part. He's is probably not so smart if he's doing it on flights. The police would just need 2 reports from 2 different flights, and then check the passenger lists to find that he was on both flights...

Please don't spread misinformation about Flipper Zero, there is enough of that already. The device has no Wi-Fi capabilities without hardware modifications.

There's a widely used add-on to the flipper zero that adds wifi capabilities though.

But the original claim was "Flipper has inbuilt functionality for this"?

Still, it's capabilities are extended by the WiFi dev board

https://blog.anthares101.com/how-to-setup-the-flipper-zero-f...

Yes, but that is very much different than claiming this is an inbuilt function.

My car has the ability to be loud and annoying, but I’d have to cut the muffler off first.

Let’s be honest.

The dev board is not some obscure or custom part. It’s sold alongside the flipper zero. I think mine came as an official bundle and you need it to do pretty much any coding for it. Every review promotes it for WiFi pen testing.

This has no comparison to junk car mods.

Seems that downvotes are used to disagree in this place still though.

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