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Or anyone who switches their browser's user agent to mobile safari...
04:11PM Thursday May 01 2008 by Karl Bode
tags: business · wireless · alternatives
AT&T hotspots have started providing iPhone users with free Wi-Fi access. Today was also the planned date
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that AT&T was scheduled to take over T-Mobile�s Starbucks hotspot locations across the nation. AT&T at this point essentially provides free Wi-Fi to essentially anyone who breathes oxygen (or at least its DSL customers) and plans to extend this courtesy shortly to its wireless customers, though no official statement has been made.

The service is usually $6 for two hours of use or $20 per month. It appears at least one user has been able to access the free Wi-Fi using a laptop and a valid iPhone ID number, and some users tell us there's a loophole that allows anyone to get free Wi-Fi if you switch your browser's user agent to Mobile Safari. The rest of us will have to continue to make due with the world's largest free wireless ISP, "linksys".

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punker
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edit:
May 1st, @04:26PM

safari.

safari. user agent

i will have to test that out

as there is lots of attWifi

now i can pin my torrent downloading on att
here an user ID


TuPaK

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Re: safari.

courtesy of macrumors.com



spoofed :P
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jhebert121

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edit:
May 1st, @05:18PM

Funny :D

"The rest of us will have to continue to make due with the world's largest free wireless ISP, 'linksys'."

^^

David
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hey Karl?

isn't Dlink and netgear in there too?

Although linksys does provide a lot of users with service.

sharksfan3
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Re: Funny :D

lol

natter

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Littleton, CO
Whenever I see "linksys", I get all happy inside and check my email. (over ssl over course....)
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Kyle

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Re: Funny :D

one of my neighbors is a Netgear ISP. pays for some pretty nice bandwidth too 10Mbps by 800 up allows all neighbors to use it and doesnt care.

Eddyisgreat
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Re: Funny :D

He will when one of his favorite neighbors posts kiddy pron to their forum of choice, openly advertising his IP address lolol.

And we already know police are focused on.

Terrorism and kiddy pron.

RangerTX
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Re: Funny :D

said by Eddyisgreat See Profile :

He will when one of his favorite neighbors posts kiddy pron to their forum of choice, openly advertising his IP address lolol.

And we already know police are focused on.

Terrorism and kiddy pron.
Police will have to provide evidence that it was him that actually posted those kiddy porn and/or that he knowingly enabled someone else to be able to do so.

ykronic
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Re: Funny :D

To charge/sentence him perhaps. But to investigate him all they need is for it to be his IP. And I'm pretty sure the investigation alone would be a good enough wake up call for anyone.

Pirate515
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said by RangerTX See Profile :

Police will have to provide evidence that it was him that actually posted those kiddie porn and/or that he knowingly enabled someone else to be able to do so.
Well, to begin with, they will probably arrest him anyway just in case, and when he begins crying and pleading while he's in custody, they will take their sweet time running forensic analysis on his equipment to determine whether his cries and pleadings are legit or not. At the end, he will probably still be punished; however, the punishment will not be nearly as severe compared to what it would have been had he actually posted the stuff.

The point is, kiddie porn is something authorities do not take lightly, and it makes much more sense just to lock up your wireless than to get caught for something you didn't do and then deal with the pain of proving your innocence.
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RangerTX
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Re: Funny :D

said by Pirate515 See Profile :

said by RangerTX See Profile :

Police will have to provide evidence that it was him that actually posted those kiddie porn and/or that he knowingly enabled someone else to be able to do so.
Well, to begin with, they will probably arrest him anyway just in case, and when he begins crying and pleading while he's in custody, they will take their sweet time running forensic analysis on his equipment to determine whether his cries and pleadings are legit or not. At the end, he will probably still be punished; however, the punishment will not be nearly as severe compared to what it would have been had he actually posted the stuff.

The point is, kiddie porn is something authorities do not take lightly, and it makes much more sense just to lock up your wireless than to get caught for something you didn't do and then deal with the pain of proving your innocence.
He has to an idiot to talk to cops. Anyone that talk to cops after getting arrest is an idiot in my book. Unless cops have evidence he was involved he will not do anytime. Stupidity is not a crime yet.
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Jason Levine
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You forgot one thing. During the investigation, his name will be "leaked" to the media who will go on and on about how a new scary child pornographer was found in the local area. Even if, in the end, he's set free, he'll still been seen as guilty in the eyes of the public. He might even lose his job and have to move just to escape the public "guilty verdict".

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Re: Funny :D

said by Jason Levine See Profile :

You forgot one thing. During the investigation, his name will be "leaked" to the media who will go on and on about how a new scary child pornographer was found in the local area. Even if, in the end, he's set free, he'll still been seen as guilty in the eyes of the public. He might even lose his job and have to move just to escape the public "guilty verdict".
BINGO - the real problem and the one that CAN'T be ignored...
macaholic
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and the odds of that? why are people so paranoid these days? I mean you're point is a good one... but maybe this guy knows trusts his neighbors.

Will the authorities use the Patriot act to catch these porn and kiddie porn fiends? that's REAL paranoia They already used it to zone in on Elliot Spitzer...
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waldoooo

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Re: Funny :D

said by macaholic See Profile :

and the odds of that? why are people so paranoid these days? I mean you're point is a good one... but maybe this guy knows trusts his neighbors.

Will the authorities use the Patriot act to catch these porn and kiddie porn fiends? that's REAL paranoia They already used it to zone in on Elliot Spitzer...
Every day on the news you see neighbors of a criminal interviewed giving the "He/She seemed like a normal everyday person". Odds are your neighbors won't do anything illegal but why risk being raided by the police and having your computer(s) seized while they investigate.
macaholic
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Re: Funny :D

said by waldoooo See Profile :

said by macaholic See Profile :

and the odds of that? why are people so paranoid these days? I mean you're point is a good one... but maybe this guy knows trusts his neighbors.

Will the authorities use the Patriot act to catch these porn and kiddie porn fiends? that's REAL paranoia They already used it to zone in on Elliot Spitzer...
Every day on the news you see neighbors of a criminal interviewed giving the "He/She seemed like a normal everyday person". Odds are your neighbors won't do anything illegal but why risk being raided by the police and having your computer(s) seized while they investigate.
well this is off topic of the off topic to the original topic... I just don't have that kind of perspective on it. Back to the off topic of the off topic...
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djrobx

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Thanks?

I don't think I've ever actually encountered an AT&T wifi spot in the wild, but I'm not a big Starbucks fan. But thanks anyway.

Perhaps I'm being a bit cynical, but I wonder if the motivation with this is a feeble attempt at relieving the strain on their Edge network.
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odreian615

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Re: Thanks?

McDonalds

ifarrell

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Re: Thanks?

said by odreian615 See Profile :

McDonalds
Yea but not for the Food (if you can say that's what it really is??? )
EPS

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Mobile Safari?

So I suppose iPod touch users should also get it as a free benefit- nice.

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edit:
May 1st, @06:32PM

Re: Mobile Safari?

said by EPS See Profile :

So I suppose iPod touch users should also get it as a free benefit- nice.
Only if you're an AT&T customer or have an AT&T registered mobile number to logon with.
ike20004

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edit:
May 2nd, @09:15AM

AT&T Offering Free Wi-Fi To iPhone Users

Including hacked iPhones? That will be great!
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