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Re:How I hacked Gogo inflight wireless Internet with Chrome by mindcrime on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @01:52PM (#4450026)
UA strings aren't bound to any legal requirements, as far as I know. So how is it fraud if one party has no reasonable expectation of any particular representation of the situation in the first place?
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Re:How I hacked Gogo inflight wireless Internet with Chrome by lowboy on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @01:58PM (#4450069)
Wellllll, it would be reasonable to expect that 99.99% of people wouldn't change their UA.
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Re:How I hacked Gogo inflight wireless Internet with Chrome by jahewson on Thursday August 30, 2012 @07:16AM (#4454012)
Name me one desktop browser which uses a mobile UA string during normal operation.
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