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Re:How AT&T Recognizes Unauthorized Tethering from Jailbroke... by xorglorb on Monday May 09, 2011 @02:31PM (#2529680)
Not really. You could always write a browser app for iOS or Android that uses Firefox or Chrome's user agent to have servers return the full desktop version.
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Re:How AT&T Recognizes Unauthorized Tethering from Jailbroke... by phonehome on Monday May 09, 2011 @03:03PM (#2529793)
If I was AT&T looking for unauthorized tethering folk, I'd focus on the people that are using > 2 GB a month + other various heuristics. Something deff smells funny if someone is using substantial bandwidth and much of the traffic is with a UserAgent like Firefox or Chrome
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