hexlax Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 AT&T has been buying up hotspot contracts with companies such as Barnes and Noble, Starbucks, and McDonalds. They have recently allowed iPhone users access to these hotspots for no charge. So the hacker mind quickly asks, how do they ensure it's an iPhone? Perhaps a MAC address lookup? Nope, not even that complicated: they ensure that the browser's agent string matches that of the iPhone's Safari web browser. So just fire up firefox and type about:config in the address bar. Now type in general.useragent.extra.firefox and change the string to: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3 The website also asks you for a valid iPhone phone number. This should be easy to find too. You can now use these hotspots for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phredsir Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Nice one Im always looking for ways to get free wifi. Free anything is good to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicatronTg Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Wouldn't you need to just spoof the browser, MAC, and get a valid IPhone number? If it doesn't check that there isn't more than one of you on, we could establish an IPhone number directory type system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Wouldn't you need to just spoof the browser, MAC, and get a valid IPhone number? Isn't that what he said? Spoof the "Safari web browser" + "valid iPhone phone number". " Perhaps a MAC address lookup? Nope, not even that complicated" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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