Hackszine.com: Free 3 months of T-Mobile WiFi

Free 3 months of T-Mobile WiFi - Just pretend to run Vista

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A few of you sent in how to get free WiFi by changing your browser's "user agent" to be a Vista machine, so here's i-hacked.com step by step...

"For the release of Microsoft Vista, T-Mobile is offering 3 free months of their hotspot service. The catch is... You have to be running Windows Vista. (don't do it)

Here is a quick tip to get three months of free hotspot service at the firm's North American WiFi access points found at Starbucks, Borders, FedEx-Kinkos, hotel chains, etc. Turns out, they only use the agent information for validation... So that enables us to SPOOF IT!

1. Download the firefox extension for spoofing user-agents: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/
2. Restart firefox and goto: Tools > User Agent Switcher > Options > Options... \
3. Click "User Agents" and then "Add"
4. Fill out the window with following info:

Description: Internet Explorer 7 (Windows Vista)
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
App Name: Microsoft Internet Explorer App Version: 4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Platform: Win32

5. Save it, goto Tools > User Agent Switcher > Then click the newly added one. Browse over to http://hotspot.t-mobile.com/vista/ and you should be redirected to a trial sign-up page." - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Jan 30, 2007 07:02 PM
Firefox, Windows, Wireless | Permalink | Comments (3)

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Posted by: PiercePresley on February 1, 2007 at 2:25 AM

Oh, what an evil thrill it gave me to spoof the site using my PII366/128MB RAM/6GB HDD/Win 98SE laptop. Hell, I may have to buy a new battery and take it out for a spin!
(Note to rabid linux-on-obsolete-tech evangelists or anyone still set to automatic flame upon hearing Windows 98: the 'puter runs Win98SE because, like Arthur Dent's television, it can't handle anything more exciting, and while I like reading Make and the Hacks books, and am even somewhat successful in emulating the simpler feats, getting linux onto a balk old laptop isn't simple. I've tried. Not that I won't try again--god knows I'd love to get a few more horsepower out of this thing.)

Posted by: TheThompsonFive on February 1, 2007 at 4:56 PM

Nice! I can use this.

Posted by: tater a.k.a beaner on December 18, 2007 at 7:53 AM

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