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+-   Apple/AT&T accidentally provides free Wi-Fi to-> on Thursday May 01 2008, @05:21PM SecureThroughObscure

Submitted by SecureThroughObscure on Thursday May 01 2008, @05:21PM
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SecureThroughObscure writes "Blogger Nate McFeters from the ZDNet Zero-Day blog posted a story today about a flaw in the implementation of free wireless access provided by Apple and AT&T at Starbucks and other locations for iPhone users, which will allow any person to gain free Wi-Fi from their laptop. Apparently all that is required is a spoofed user agent and a valid iPhone phone number, which are trivial to obtain. This is a pretty interesting flaw in that all that secures the access is the user agent sent by the browser. You'd think people would know better. -SecureThroughObscure"
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