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Re:AT&T Cracking Down on Free Tethering via Jailbroken iPhones by stanleydrew on Friday March 18, 2011 @12:35AM (#2339344)
So you think they are parsing user agent strings out of HTTP requests? Seems unlikely.
Re:AT&T Cracking Down on Free Tethering via Jailbroken iPhones by barrkel on Friday March 18, 2011 @12:40AM (#2339359)
Most mobile web access systems run through an explicit or transparent web proxy to downgrade image quality (=> reduce size) at least. Filtering on user agent would be trivial, though easy to work around.
Re:AT&T Cracking Down on Free Tethering via Jailbroken iPhones by gte910h on Friday March 18, 2011 @12:39AM (#2339354)
Just periodically run a log scanner for requests for SWFs, etc. Lots of simple non-constant log scans will reveal this information.
Re:AT&T Cracking Down on Free Tethering via Jailbroken iPhones by vlisivka on Friday March 18, 2011 @07:44AM (#2340078)
I will use VPN or HTTPS proxy and will sue you if you will use that information for non-technical purposes.
Re:AT&T Cracking Down on Free Tethering via Jailbroken iPhones by gte910h on Friday March 18, 2011 @12:07PM (#2340838)
If you're using a VPN, that ALSO is a dead giveaway protocol wise.

Good luck suing them. They offer tethering for a price, you're not paying it. I think the chance you'll get away with invasion of privacy on something that they technically should only see from flagged account is about 0.