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Old Jun 4, 2012 | 9:15 am
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Originally Posted by gfunkdave
Poor manners on Southwest's part.

Just connect over VPN or SSH tunnel, which is what one should do anyway when using an untrusted/third party connection.
For folks that understand the issue, that's the solution. However, (as they point out), it was a customer-facing site, and I'd bet good money that most customers are not savvy enough to know about VPN/SSH tunnels, much less do anything about it.

Further, if it's anything like GoGo, the lag time is so bad that a VPN can be virtually unusable (part of the reason that I no longer use GoGo).
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