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I made “free” internet.
In Australia we have an ISP that provides a Huawei USB back up. You can find unlocking instruction online. Works anywhere in Australia. SIM can be used in a generic wifi hot spot. People throw them outa lot as they frequently get over ordered. Lostcin post etc. I have 3.
Autofill with my fake profile info.
Name: Go.
firstname: Fuck.
Email: [email protected]
Check email for verification link.
But the trick with these is, in order to check email they need to connect you to the internet, even if just for a minute. If you just need the internet to sync the latest IMs and emails, that is good enough.
Bro, look, there's an open wifi network here now. Signal kinda sucks out here. Imma try it.
....it's loading a login screen
they want my employee number
close it and never think about using it again
Connect again in 3 months when you forget
Here's a secret those free wifi providers don't want you to know: usually, they don't check your email or ask you to verify it, so you can just enter [email protected] If they do show a second screen asking for an email, just create a tempmail adress on cellular and switch back to verify. It works 99.99% of the time.
Edit: you also don't have to enter any real personal information, how would they know?
I always use famous people, just in case someone is checking the data and assumes that Tom Cruise or Sydney Sweeney decided to stop in Cambridge for a quick bite to eat in Nandos before staying in the Travelodge.
I've never given a real email to these. I just bash the keys on my phones with random letters and decide whether it's going to be gmail, aol, or yahoo that day...
Email: [email protected] Address: 123 Main St Phone: 555-555-5555 DoB: 01/01/2000 Gender: other (all) Income: $3.50
I always do 1970-01-01 to confuse the developers
Now that's good, even better if you throw some error characters into your other info
You need to replace a lot of those words with profanity to get the message across.
Even kids know how to enter fake data.
Bro, just one more piece of info bro. Come on bro, just one more piece of your personal info and I'll let you sign on to the "free" wifi. Bro come on bro, just one more piece of personal info, it's no big deal for some wifi bro.
I'm often [email protected] with a name of admin admin, a birth date of 01/01/1970 a phone number of 4041234567 and address of 123 main street anytown, USA
And then if they expect me to retrieve info from said email or phone number I simply move on
The professionals try to insert some xss attacks into the forms; or all kinds of quote and comma characters in case the data is exported as csv at some point :)
I went to a restaurant recently that asked me to pay my bill with the QR code on the tablet. Scanned it, and the first thing it did was ask for my phone number to verify my "account" by sending me a code.
The server didn't understand that I wasn't going to do that, and they needed to run my credit card like normal or I wasn't paying.
Oh man. If I need to download an app to pay for a meal I'm never going back to that place again.
usually just the website, but yes, I agree.
I'm like: "I only have a work phone, I can't do things like that on it."
Whip out your decoy Nokia 7110 instead.
I talked my way out of a parking ticket once. the machines were offline, and the only sticker for the app was knee level on the side. I argued a smart phone should not be a requirement to park your car here, meter cop tore the ticket up right then.
But what's the big deal? It's just an account, sir. Everyone does it. It doesn't mean anything.
These are the thoughts of people who truly have no idea what's going on in the world, and those people are abundant.
That's why in some ways I don't mind that my country still pays for mobile data, because I just don't even bother at restaurants anymore "oh, I've run out of data, I can't scan that, here's my money"
Because of how severely covid lock downs hit our state, every single restaurant I've been to in the last 5 years has used a QR code to order and pay.
I have allergies, so this means I mostly just order black coffee when it's QR only.
I'm not giving you all of my personal details for an overpriced $5 black coffee. The result is that I sit there with my friends, fiddling my thumbs, not buying anything.
I just clone someone else's already active mac address, it works every time
This is a beautifully simple solution! I hadn’t thought of that but I’ll have to keep it in mind.
Do you think you’d have to move closer to another AP? I do think a duplicate a MAC address might would connectivity problems at least while connected to the same AP.
Yes. They deserve nothing. LIE.
This is what I do.
Today I signed into some "free" wifi as Joe mama ([email protected])
Smooth sailing for Joe after that.
My email is whatever shit protonpass comes up with when I generate a random alias. Phone number is 3334445566 Name is: lol no Gender is undisclosed DoB is January 1st of the first year I can select. Otherwise, 1900 And income is 1.
There, free WiFi.
Personally I like giving my personal data as Pope Francis.
That said...A wifi access point that requests that info is almost certainly not private for every other trackable thing you do with that wifi, however.
Everything you do on a public WiFi should be through a VPN anyway. Just in case you accidentally forget you are on it and log in somewhere.
It's good practice to assume that this is true of every network you don't control.
That's when I use the oldest human invention: LYING.
Fake email, fake address, tell them I make more than the highest option they give for the income, make up the entirely unique gender of squorp, etc.
They don't care. They're just turning around and repeating your lies to whatever advertiser is so stupid as to believe their demographic sales pitch.
Hurt them by not using it. That's the biggest number that feeds their machine.
There's something to be said for poisoning the data. Intentionally, and consistently, enter slightly wrong information into every form you can. If it leaks, it all corroborates, but with other wrong information.
It's definitely easier and more reliable to just pass tho.
I think if you lie and use a VPN there might be less data for them to profit from.
I'm pretty sure hitting someone with a rock pre-dates lying. Try that instead next time.
Rule of thumb on the Internet, if you can't see how it's payed for (subscriptions, ads, donations...) then you probably pay with your personal data.
Especially true for apps and games. "Play totally free, no annoying adds or in-app purchases" means "Here is a trojan horse pretending to be a game while farming every possible information from your device to sell to the highest bidder".
Small shout out to Apple here, perhaps, for their little privacy report card. Here is Angry Birds 2:
A transcription app by a cool solo dev:
Y'all trust these?
