Old Safaricom modems

[Chiefkiumbe]

Whats with the old safaricom modems, kuna jamaa wawili within a span of 2 weeks wameniulizia hii gadget. Watu wa tech si mniambie fom ni gani

[cortedivoire]

Uliza hao watu meffi

[Ndindu]

@Chiefkiumbe

Whats with the old safaricom modems, kuna jamaa wawili within a span of 2 weeks wameniulizia hii gadget. Watu wa tech si mniambie fom ni gani

Kuna loophole fulani associated with ports that allows them to access free internet after paying for just 1 or 2 month’s subscription. Around 2013 Startimes had such a loophole with their old Settop boxes. It has to do with Serial numbers and MAC addresses

[Dudu1]

Wezi ni wengi Kenya

[Josto_Bwaku]

@cortedivoire

Uliza hao watu meffi

Dereva wa exhauster, usikule stock.

[hakimoto]

Iko na loophole

[Buckets]

I don’t know about any loophole but what I know is the first modems were very easy to communicate and send commands to. If you needed to do send/receive sms, dial a number, dial USSD codes etc from your pc, all it took was sending few AT text commands via COM ports.

Later models disallowed a huge subset of AT commands.

EDIT: Huawei also had PDF manuals on their website that documented all supported AT commands. I think the removed it. I can’t find it anymore

[Eng_iti]

@Buckets

… modems were very easy to communicate and send commands to. If you needed to do send/receive sms, dial a number, dial USSD codes etc from your pc, all it took was sending few AT text commands via COM ports.
Later models disallowed a huge subset of AT commands.
EDIT: Huawei also had PDF manuals on their website that documented all supported AT commands. I think the removed it. I can’t find it anymore

Sitatupa haka kangu ssa

[Chiefkiumbe]

@Eng_iti

…communicate and send commands to. If you needed to do send/receive sms, dial a number, dial USSD codes etc from your pc, all it took was sending few AT text commands via COM ports.
Later models disallowed a huge subset of AT commands.
EDIT: Huawei also had PDF manuals on their website that documented all supported AT commands. I think the removed it. I can’t find it anymore

Sitatupa haka kangu ssa

Tuma picha tuone

[Jack_Black]

@Ndindu

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Whats with the old safaricom modems, kuna jamaa wawili within a span of 2 weeks wameniulizia hii gadget. Watu wa tech si mniambie fom ni gani

Kuna loophole fulani associated with ports that allows them to access free internet after paying for just 1 or 2 month’s subscription. Around 2013 Startimes had such a loophole with their old Settop boxes. It has to do with Serial numbers and MAC addresses

Orange had the wifree bug for like 3 months in the late 2000’s. The speeds were quite good, I could download 480p episodes of bleach in .mkv format in an hour or so.

[Jack_Black]

@Eng_iti

…communicate and send commands to. If you needed to do send/receive sms, dial a number, dial USSD codes etc from your pc, all it took was sending few AT text commands via COM ports.
Later models disallowed a huge subset of AT commands.
EDIT: Huawei also had PDF manuals on their website that documented all supported AT commands. I think the removed it. I can’t find it anymore

Sitatupa haka kangu ssa

Use chatgpt, smh.

[fundimnoma]

@Ndindu

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Whats with the old safaricom modems, kuna jamaa wawili within a span of 2 weeks wameniulizia hii gadget. Watu wa tech si mniambie fom ni gani

Kuna loophole fulani associated with ports that allows them to access free internet after paying for just 1 or 2 month’s subscription. Around 2013 Startimes had such a loophole with their old Settop boxes. It has to do with Serial numbers and MAC addresses

do you have a detailed guide on how i can exploit this, or do i have to figure out the bug manually. Most safaricom modems are huawei modems that have hard their firmware changed, if you tell me the model no i can search if a vulnerability of it exists.

[Ndindu]

@Buckets

… modems were very easy to communicate and send commands to. If you needed to do send/receive sms, dial a number, dial USSD codes etc from your pc, all it took was sending few AT text commands via COM ports.
Later models disallowed a huge subset of AT commands.
EDIT: Huawei also had PDF manuals on their website that documented all supported AT commands. I think the removed it. I can’t find it anymore

Old ZTE modem’s IMEI were easily changed using thos AT commands

[Gugyygyg]

@Jack_Black

…ssociated with ports that allows them to access free internet after paying for just 1 or 2 month’s subscription. Around 2013 Startimes had such a loophole with their old Settop boxes. It has to do with Serial numbers and MAC addresses

Orange had the wifree bug for like 3 months in the late 2000’s. The speeds were quite good, I could download 480p episodes of bleach in .mkv format in an hour or so.

Elder write a history of story bugs

[Jack_Black]

@Gugyygyg

… to access free internet after paying for just 1 or 2 month’s subscription. Around 2013 Startimes had such a loophole with their old Settop boxes. It has to do with Serial numbers and MAC addresses
Orange had the wifree bug for like 3 months in the late 2000’s. The speeds were quite good, I could download 480p episodes of bleach in .mkv format in an hour or so.

Elder write a history of story bugs

Elder have you tried the Starlink trick yet? If you place it (the dish) on an aluminum sheet, you instantly vanish from their network. But the Internet still works.

As for historical bugs, you need an unlocked 3G modem (runs on any network) to truly appreciate the scale of free interneting.

[Soyinka]

Here they are, where do I start?

[Jack_Black]

@Soyinka

…Here they are, where do I start?
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You have to flash the firmware to remove the GSM network restrictions. You can have that done in town for about 100 bob, as it’s a simple software lock.

[Guru2.0]

@Jack_Black

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Soyinka:

…Here they are, where do I start?
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You have to flash the firmware to remove the GSM network restrictions. You can have that done in town for about 100 bob, as it’s a simple software lock.

How much do those phone n computer technicians in town know? Unapata some can strip and repair your phone till it works perfectly they even jailbreak. But can they do zero day exploits for instance

[Jack_Black]

@Guru2.0

…where do I start?
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You have to flash the firmware to remove the GSM network restrictions. You can have that done in town for about 100 bob, as it’s a simple software lock.

How much do those phone n computer technicians in town know? Unapata some can strip and repair your phone till it works perfectly they even jailbreak. But can they do zero day exploits for instance

Well, since they’re competing with each other, it’s difficult to know. But I do know that Nairobi CBD tends to be all about cost, not ability.