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Dexter said:
And if you're intelligent enough not to be trip trading while operating a flight? How then?
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If (as an IT guy) I were told to see if someone had been online when they'd shouldn't have been, I would start with looking at all the logs of things that are automated in the background that they likely didn't shut off. Stuff that would talk to servers and they wouldn't notice it if they weren't real serious about disabling EVERY automated login.

On a company device, we'd just have access to the device logs itself. Change the MAC all you like... wouldn't matter. We would just have a nice log of you doing it, which would hang you higher than if you didn't.

And other stuff. Never met anyone clever enough to completely cover their tracks yet, and they've tried.

All depends on if it's a "casual look" by someone without all the admin level IT access to the device and devices in the path (someone not in IT seeing you in the scheduling system) or a hard look by an IT person.

And every time they make an old greybeard like me do a hard look like that, I think to myself "digging through logs sucks, so I'm writing a script or tool to gather all this stuff" and the next time it's just five minutes of hunting through my work-scripts directory of crap to find the old ones and run them. What took three hours the last time is now a "five minute problem".

So I can go get a taco and not have to interrupt my lunch over someone obviously desperately wanting their boss to fire them.

We had one boss get all cranky that people were using Facebook "all day in the monitoring reports". Until I walked into his office and told him HE was on Facebook *right now*. He blinked. "What?!"

"Your Reports are showing traffic from people's Facebook App on their iPhones in their pockets. Ding. Ding. You've got an update!"

Heh. So you do have to know what you're looking for and what you're looking at when you find it...
 
denverpilot said:
All depends on if it's a "casual look" by someone without all the admin level IT access to the device and devices in the path (someone not in IT seeing you in the scheduling system) or a hard look by an IT person.
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Difficulty level: trivial, even without a greybeard.
 
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Autothrust Blue said:
Difficulty level: trivial, even without a greybeard.
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Yeah, people usually aren't as tricky as they think they are. And the few who are tricky usually can't hide stuff from an entire team of pros looking for what they did if the boss says "stop working on things that make or save us money and go look through logs so I can fire an idiot..." ;)

By the way since I'm typing ... tweaking a multi antenna wifi system to ignore users in a particular physical location is pretty easy. Super simplified -- if there's three access points on the aircraft, and say antenna 1 is Fore, 2 center, 3 aft... anything below a certain signal strength reaching antenna 1 that's also weaker at 2 and 3... is probably gforward of the pax cabin. RF physics. (Gets tricky on the ground when reflections are coming off of buildings and other aircraft but it generally works.)

Can help that algorithm along by using directional gain antennas only pointed aft, too. ;)

No idea what GoGo uses or does, but I have designed RF systems that ignore wifi users outside the building in the parking lot just by making signal strength rules. And other similar techniques with antenna gain and direction.

I don't think the tech was looking for a date. :) :) :)
 
Cptnchia said:
It was the technician responsible for maintainance on the aircraft system. I'm a line pilot, why would I be taking to a sales rep?



Dude looked like this:

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Not my type.
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Well, clearly it isn't @tonyw because he's doing something technological! :)
 
We need to turn our wifi off on our iPads prior to the pushback checklist and have all applications closed except for JeppFD and the Content Locker stuff prior to engine start.
 
PhilosopherPilot said:
1. Each device has a MAC address. They can pull the logs from every plane you've flown in the last month, and if there's a common MAC address on each of them, you're probably the only common link between those flights. (But this is labor intensive.)

2. They can pull the logs from a company site like flica and see when you logged in and see if any of those times were from the IP address of the planes wifi. (Easy)

Most of the time if you get caught on flica, it's because someone ratted you out. You picked up a trip that they wanted, and they knew you were in flight. Next thing you know, carpet dance.
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If somebody has to tell you not to pick up trips in open time, respond to company emails, make chances on flica, etc etc. while you are flying, it is almost worse than binding your new hire packet....
 
Jordan93 said:
We need to turn our wifi off on our iPads prior to the pushback checklist and have all applications closed except for JeppFD and the Content Locker stuff prior to engine start.
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I'm afraid if I turn my surface screen off that it may never come back! I guess now that means I don't have a checklist either!
 
Cptnchia said:
It was the technician responsible for maintainance on the aircraft system. I'm a line pilot, why would I be taking to a sales rep?



Dude looked like this:

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Not my type.
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Ah. You said "rep" and I filled in "sales rep". My bad.

I still don't believe they have the precision to tell which seat is making which connection remotely though.


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