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Re:AT&T Cracking Down on Free Tethering via Jailbroken iPhones by signa11 on Friday March 18, 2011 @02:50AM (#2339632)
hmm, apart from ttl, you can use other tcp fields e.g. windows, tcp-options, packet-length etc. then, from a captured trace run passive os fingerprinting to find out with reasonable certainty the device generating the traffic.

these can/may be manipulated via ip-tables, but then you still have a huge data-volume to account for...

Re:AT&T Cracking Down on Free Tethering via Jailbroken iPhones by drdaeman on Friday March 18, 2011 @07:15AM (#2340027)
Can iPhone just route all your traffic through some encrypted VPN? I've heard there's a port of OpenVPN for iOS — that should be sufficient.

At least you'll be sure telco guys are not inspecting your packets by any means, be it "teethering detection", blocking some kind of traffic, or something more malicious, like profiling your Google searches. (Timing analysis may still apply.)

Re:AT&T Cracking Down on Free Tethering via Jailbroken iPhones by bostonvaulter2 on Friday March 18, 2011 @05:58AM (#2339894)
Not to mention things like adobe checking for updates
Re:AT&T Cracking Down on Free Tethering via Jailbroken iPhones by vlisivka on Friday March 18, 2011 @07:51AM (#2340090)
Yeah, it is trivial to analyze traffic of somebody else when you are working in FBI with court order...