Comments on: Fun FON hacking

By: fucter

fucter — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:38:37 +0000

ha, i received a letter in the mail from fon today (how long has it been… a year?) anyway, they say if i dont turn my router on, that i wont be able to access free fon hotspots anymore, oh well.
in other words, no finantial penalty will be bestowed upon me :)

By: Warezio

Warezio — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:25:36 +0000

Can someone please post this text again, the link is down.. Someone upload it to rapidshare or something..

By: Levi

Levi — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:05:17 +0000

I was thinking of getting my fon router (wrt54gs) and switching it for my older wrt54g
Do you think they would have a problem with that?

By: woosh

woosh — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:13:55 +0000

Screw them over? I was curious about Fon and I decided to install the Firmware in my Linksys router from the Fon website. Like a bad virus, I can’t get rid of it. Fon support hasn’t answered my e-mails, my posts to the Forum on Fon’s website got deleted. Trust me DON’T use your own router and install the firmware. Buy the Fon router for the low price.

By: woosh

woosh — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:11:31 +0000

By: This is l

This is l — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 03:33:30 +0000

Although no one is still following this, Fon is still shipping $13 routers ($8 ship) away and Google removed the cache of that very special page (although all you need to know is already in the comments here). It is surprising that Google didn’t remove the page sooner, since its been funding the Fon operation!

What will you do with your router? I am currently using one in client mode as a wireless card to borrow a nearby internet connection. Another is set up to feed it back to the source! Imagine what they’ll think when they connect to the new network in question and see their own router lights buzzing!

Fon is now shipping WRT54GS (speedbooster) V4 models by the way!

I have one discovery to add: while monitoring airborne packets (redirected from the WAN port) from a fon router in airopeek, I noticed that instead of seeing heartbeats, I was registering strange pairs of CRC errors and notifications.

By: martin

martin — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:40:14 +0000

31# i need your help

prominator1@yahoo.com

By: David

David — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:58:53 +0000

I got my FON router today. Started messing around with it. I was messing with the FON firmware’s firmware upgrade tool, thought I bricked my router. Just had the blinking power LED of death.. I TFTP’d Linksys’ firmware version 4 and got rid of FON.

Whoever was against hacking the FON router… FON made 20 million dollars already on this. They’re not trying to be nice and create a big wireless community, they’re trying to make money off of YOUR ISP. Lame. So I have no guilt.

By: zite

zite — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:39:07 +0000

#26:

I would assume it’s because fon is a cool idea from a seemingly cool company. We don’t really have a good reason to skrew them over. While with warez the assumption is you’ll buy what you like and music that you don’t want to support the authors getting raped out of 90% of the money / whatever.

By: fucter

fucter — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:30:26 +0000

fon ssh function maybe found: http://boards.fon.com/viewtopic.php?t=1219

and basically the original info was to periodlically wget http://download.fon.com/heartbeat.php?mac= at some random times

By: James

James — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:43:25 +0000

So does anyone have a copy of the original information?

By: fucter

fucter — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 21:13:29 +0000

this is L
i cant either, sometime next week i should be getting my fon router, i’ll sniff it for a couple of days and see what i catch. and i plan to, sometime in the near future, make a page(possibly a wiki) all about our fun with these things

By: this is L

this is L — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:59:36 +0000

Any more information on SSH dial-ins? I can’t find it in the firmware code.

By: BAF

BAF — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 05:38:42 +0000

#25: uhh, read the comments?

http://hackaday.com/entry/1234000903073775/#c706073

By: geremy condra

geremy condra — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:08:56 +0000

I am curious to note- how many of us would, without a second thought, decompile software, download music, reverse engineer a piece of hardware, etc, but found it repugnant to violate the tos from fon? I know I was horrified at the idea, but I can’t quite put my finger on why this more than any of those other tos/eula-breakers feels wrong. Maybe I’m wrong, but…thoughts?