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 [ 1998 - 2012  - Hacking, Phreaking & Anarchy in the UK ]

Feb. 02 2012
               Author -=The Firestarter=-
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[     Bypassing PAYG Broadband Dongle Content Lock       ]
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After cracking into a local business WEP connection and 
leeching about 4gb of the new zeitgeist file, they shut off
there router.

BT Openzone is, well, shite. Even when it does decide that
it wants to connect.

I Figured that i'd go out and purchase a PAYG broadband
dongle with t-mobile.

So i headed up to some random shopping center in glasgow,
purchased with cash and gave them some other random dudes
dox when they asked for my details.

Awesome, i now had anonymous internet (again). At least
thats what i thought. 

So i fired up the dongle, got connected to the net, and
begrudingly paid £2 for a whole 24 hours of internet (which
i believe restricts me to 250mb download allowance). Yes 
the mobile broadband market is run by a load of shiesters.

No matter whom you go with its going to be expensive and a
somewhat shit connection, theres always downsides to things
like this.

But i looked on the bright side, it was anonymous, it gave
me internet, and at least it worked.

At least thats what i thought...

I connected to the internet, i tried to browse to swateam.org.uk
and got hit by a restricted site warning, turns out that they
restrict a lot more than just hacking & phreaking sites;
twitter, youtube, myspace etc etc are all blocked. the fuckers.

you need a credit card to unlock it online, which i hear doesn't
actually work, although not having someone elses card handy i
couldn't confirm that and i wasn't prepared to travel a few hours
back to the t-mobile shop with photo id to have them unlock it
for me. the downside to that is that i don't even have a fake 
passport or driving license to give them, and i'm sure as hell
not giving them mine.

So what was i going to do? how was i going to bypass this lamest
of restrictions?

Actually very easy, very similar to how i surf the net 95% of the
time anyway.

SSH Tunneling!!

Oh yes, good old SSH, a protocal on the internet that we will
be eternally greatful for.

Ok first off i had to overcome my first hurdle, i wasn't using
my usual linux machine, at which point the usual command along
the lines of...

SSH -D 1111 surfinbird@ssh-shell.swateam.org.uk 

would have surficed, no i was using a shitty d0ze box, yeah
shoot me now, to make matters even worse it was vista. i know
i have no excuse, but being away from my usual machines and my
hacktop (eeePC) charger being on the blink i had no choice.

So we need to tunnel the connection in a similar fashion to how
i had in the past.

A little googling about lead me to a very interesting piece of
software called Bitvise, you can leech it from:

http://www.bitvise.com/download-area

although you can get it to the download repositories on the
swateam site via:

http://files.swateam.org.uk/tools/Tunnelier-Inst.exe

The setup itself is quite straight forward, you set up the port
you want, whack in your details and away you go.

Once up and running just point your browsers SOCKS proxy at your
local machine on port 1080 (or whatever you set it up as), and
away you go.

Quite simple really, and t-mobile are none-the-wiser.


While i wouldn't recommend t-mobile as a decent straightforward
mobile broadband provider, due to there crappy restrictions on
sites and crappy download limit, i will however highly recommend
them for there simple bypass of content restriction.

If you need a shell account to use the socks server on, drop me
a line and a bitcoin and i'll sort you one out.