[Tfug] Free WiFi at Starbucks

Thomas Tarbet snowboarder_tom at yahoo.com
Fri May 2 07:07:32 MST 2008


There is a firefox add-on called 'User Agent Switcher'.

Tom
----- Original Message ----
From: Jon <bigj at flatwan.net>
To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Friday, May 2, 2008 6:09:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Free WiFi at Starbucks

I thought I saw a blog somewhere showing how to fake the UA string and 
get it free. I'll need to dig that up again...

--
Jon


Angus Scott-Fleming wrote:
> If you have an iPhone, which has a UserAgent string of "Mobile Safari 
> 1.1.3 - iPhone", you can get free WiFi at Starbucks courtesy of AT&T. 
> Other browsers not invited ;-)
>
> Seen here (except for the UserAgent stinrg):
>
> Apple and AT&T providing free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users and oops... 
> to everyone else as well! | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
> "You have to love security through obscurity…"
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1067
>
>
>
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> Angus Scott-Fleming
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