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		fdb on March 11, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tunneling traffic through DNS, a.k.a free internet... This is a great hack, although it requires a lot of work. I have it installed on my server and my Mac, and surfing/e-mailing works fine. I have been toying with the idea of having the client part ported to my iPhone, so I can use paywall wifi directly from a mobile device. This would require porting the Perl client code over to C.

oldgregg on March 12, 2009 [–]

I've always wondered when someone would use EC2 and launch a free service with ICMP/DNS tunneling... and release a dead-simple client app.

I'm guessing most of this wifi infrastructure would take quite awhile before very much of it was closed up.

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