I usually wouldn’t be posting such stuffs, but I just wanted to be spoil the party. 😀 For fun.
Apparently, orange is going to give out free Facebook access to its subscribers from June the 1st.
The rules are apparently:
- Uploading pictures will costs.
- Accessing it via mobile is free, I suppose its m.facebook.com.
- Minimum amount of credit should on phone [Rs.6 i heard, am not sure].
So, technically, orange is saying, they are offering, a free route to send traffic from Mauritius to Out in the big internet for free?
Questions:
- How do they know it is pictures that you are uploading? If it is by data size, then sending your picture into multiple chunks and getting it rebuilt and reposted somewhere is valid?
- One can mimic an exact fb conversation if they use wireshark, so why can’t they send anything by mimicking it?
Crazy scenario:
- Suppose I have two facebook accounts; I have one account on a local machine in Mauritius, one in England.
- On the local machine, I add a layer that encodes ssh traffic into facebook messages, mimicking a message, which i send to the other second account in England.
- Then in England, my second account which is running on a BSD machine, I parse out the facebook messages received, it would be ssh packets when decoded obviously, then pass this on to the ssh server there.
Crazier implications:
- That would mean i could transfer any data from Mauritius to England, for free, when truly it isn’t something free.
- It will probably be a very latent connection, but it will work but be slow and might experience timeouts.
Does this means that they gave us free internet without knowing it?
How do they differentiate between legit packets and non legit ones?
Infact, a less secure alternative would be to just skip off the ssh and do direct translation
So many questions :).
+$3|v3n
