That's the stupidest excuse I've ever heard. Human error? Like somebody accidentally clicked on the "enable free iPhone wifi" button, and all of a sudden all the hotspots knew to accept iPhones, and the website magically updated to advertise it?
But yet this feature that could be so easily activated by accident is so far from release that they can't give any kind of a timetable or even describe how it will work, despite the fact that it has already been working. WTF AT&T?
I think the only possible explanation is that the people who devised the plan originally were so stupid they didn't realize that spoofing the user agent of an iPhone is so easy, it's a standard feature in the menus of many browsers. It didn't exactly take a hacker to bypass that system.
I'm a little concerned that these are the same people who hold my credit card information and secure my data.
it might also have gone like "ok, turn it on. oh shit, look at that bandwidth! its gonna crash! turn it off, turn it off!" haha
but ya, way too easy to trick it. im sure youre right. thats the delay. working on a way to authenticate customers. why not just create a att wifi username/password?
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That's the stupidest excuse I've ever heard. Human error? Like somebody accidentally clicked on the "enable free iPhone wifi" button, and all of a sudden all the hotspots knew to accept iPhones, and the website magically updated to advertise it?
But yet this feature that could be so easily activated by accident is so far from release that they can't give any kind of a timetable or even describe how it will work, despite the fact that it has already been working. WTF AT&T?
I think the only possible explanation is that the people who devised the plan originally were so stupid they didn't realize that spoofing the user agent of an iPhone is so easy, it's a standard feature in the menus of many browsers. It didn't exactly take a hacker to bypass that system.
I'm a little concerned that these are the same people who hold my credit card information and secure my data.
lol. good call.
it might also have gone like "ok, turn it on. oh shit, look at that bandwidth! its gonna crash! turn it off, turn it off!" haha
but ya, way too easy to trick it. im sure youre right. thats the delay. working on a way to authenticate customers. why not just create a att wifi username/password?