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.
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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @04:31AM
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
Yeah right, because the only computers you could learn programming on were Apple computers.