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A Teenage Hacker Figured Out How To Get Free Data On His Phone (vice.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Jacob Ajit is 17 and he just hacked his way to getting free phone data, presumably so that he can do whatever it is that teens do online these days without alerting his parents with overage fees. According to a Medium post Ajit posted on Wednesday, he made his discovery while playing around with a prepaid T-Mobile phone with no service. The phone was still able to connect to the network, although it would only take him to a T-Mobile portal asking him to renew the prepaid phone plan. For some reason, though, Ajit wrote that his internet speed test app still worked, albeit through a T-Mobile server. Ajit figured out that he was able to access media sent from any folder labelled "/speedtest," possibly because T-Mobile whitelists media files from speed tests regardless of the host. He tested his theory by setting up a "/speedtest" folder on his own site and filled it with media, including a Taylor Swift music video, which he was able to access. Ajit writes that he then created a proxy server that allows users to access any site with this method. All a T-Mobile user has to do is go to this page and input any URL they want to visit. "Just like that, I now had access to data throughout the T-Mobile network without maintaining any sort of formal payments or contract," Ajit wrote on Medium. "Just my phone's radios talking to the network's radios, free of any artificial shackles."
So you're saying Ajit is an ijit?
That pretty much proves that T-mobile employs 15 year old Taylor swift fans to handle their networks.
That's racist! check your privilege!
go into your bathroom in the dark and flip the light on. See the idiot in the mirror? now turn the light off. POOF the idiot disappears.
idiot.
I just tried this and it did not work. Please advice.
That's racist! check your privilege!
I checked it - it's still there - like always.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Well, no one would go to the forbes links.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Except for making you use that stupid app and spamming the shit out of you with ads, but yeah no tricks...
Check your privilege... Man, nobody says this kind of crap to me, because I come from a developing country and I'm not white. Who do the hell do you think you are to assume that I'm underprivileged, you flipping racist. You are trying to look self-righteous and kind, but your assumption that only white-america male are privileged is extremely racist, and frankly, supremacist. Jerk!