Todd Allcock wrote:

> Is it just me, or is access to the AT&T Hotspot network just not that
> precious a commodity to believe it was suddenly overrun with "UA
> hackers" to the point that AT&T felt they had to stop access altogether,
> rather than just put up with it for a few days while they instituted a
> smarter login policy?

I'm sure you're correct about this. Plus can't you get two hours of
access a day by buying a Starbucks card of any value?

> I knew about the UA hack (I have it "REM-med" in my registry for quick
> switching on my WinMo phone to check out "iPhone-only" sites,) and a
> friend of mine has an iPhone so I have his number. Despite being armed
> with this dangerous info, I didn't feel compelled to race to a Starbucks
> just to cheat AT&T out of 30 minutes of Hotspot access!

The User Agent hack is very useful in my area because the free municipal
WiFi provider requires that Windows users install and launch MSN
SideGuide in order to access the network. It's an extremely annoying
program that slows down an already agonizingly slow network, plus uses a
lot of CPU power on the PC (when I used to launch SideGuide, everything
slowed down, and the CPU fan on the notebook would come on).

With the Firefox User Agent Switcher add-on all you have to do is make
the WiFi network think you're on a Mac or on a Linux machine, and the
requirement for SideGuide is eliminated.