>a fake hotspot (“Delta WiFi Fast”), with a phishing landing page “designed to harvest passengers’ personal credentials.”

It wasn't a fake hotspot. It was a real hotspot with a SSID that potentially infringed Delta's trademark. CFAA doesn't prevent harvesting people's credentials since it's the user's own machine that people are connecting to.

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tweetle_beetle 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Can SSIDs really infringe trademarks? Clearly the context is a bit different in a truly isolated environment like a cabin at cruising altitude where alternatives are not reasonably expected, but am I not allowed to call a network I run from an apartment in a densely populated area where others could acces it `BigCorp is crap`?

	▲	charcircuit 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Considering the access point SSID acts like an ad for airplane wifi from Delta (something Delta actually sells) I think there are arguments that could be made about it infringing a trademark.