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High School Slacker Hacker Gets LTE for Free; T-Mobile Customers Confused

posted by cmn32480 on Monday September 19 2016, @11:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the formerly-freebie dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

T-Mobile US leaked free access to sites with '/speedtest' in the URL

American T-Mobile subscribers can score free internet access by running traffic through a proxy with "speedtest" in its URL.

Seventeen-year-old high school student Jacob Ajit found the loophole , since taken down, which allowed cheapskates to access T-Mobile's data network without paying.

Ajit realised speed testing sites and those with the feature embedded could be accessed using a T-Mobile SIM that had no data credit.

He then set up a proxy on a remote server placing "/speedtest" in the URL and could then access all areas of the network.

Ajit said he reported the flaw to T-Mobile and published his hack without waiting for a fix since exploitation of the hole did not put customers at risk.

[...]

Ajit said he made the decision while bored on a Friday night, trying random apps to see which would load on his credit-depleted account.

T-Mobile customers have responded with confusion since their speedtest hole no longer works.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @02:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @02:53AM (#404097)

    Captain Crunch is not blind. You're thinking of Joybubbles who was blind and who had perfect pitch.

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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday September 20 2016, @04:09AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Tuesday September 20 2016, @04:09AM (#404117) Journal

    Parent is correct.

    Steve Wozniak, who used the handle Berkeley Blue, said of his blue box "I have never designed a circuit I was prouder of." Steve Jobs, who was 17 years old at the time, collaborated on the project (Wozniak was 20).

    https://www.salon.com/2013/02/16/from_phreaks_to_apple_steve_jobs_and_steve_wozniaks_eureka_moment/ [salon.com]

    Possible charges could have included theft of service, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and conspiracy. If only justice had been served...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @04:31AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @04:31AM (#404121)

      If "justice" had been served, there wouldn't have been Apple computers in schools for decades, and 90% of the geezers on this site would never have learned to program.

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @12:10PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @12:10PM (#404193)

        Yeah right, because the only computers you could learn programming on were Apple computers.

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday September 21 2016, @01:00AM

    by edIII (791) on Wednesday September 21 2016, @01:00AM (#404602)

    Thank you for the correction.

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