Stunnel and Airline Wi-Fi
In the USA this would be a violation of the CFAA <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;18&#x2F;1030" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;18&#x2F;1030</a>. Specifically, the router is a &quot;protected computer&quot; and the procedure described here is &quot;exceeding authorised access&quot; because it routes packets around a mechanism that was designed to stop them. Maximum penalty 5 years.<p>(Some might argue that it was authorised because the computer let him do it. However the CFAA simply doesn&#x27;t work that way. &quot;Authorisation&quot; is what the designers intended, and the initial paywall made that intention perfectly clear.)