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« on: August 12, 2012, 03:00:07 am »

Another stealth tethering app will probably be pulled off the App Store any second... (Updated)



   Update: It's been yanked.

   These things tend not to survive long in the wild, but it's your $2, have fun: audio capture iPhone app DiscoRecorder apparently has a secret, and it's an Easter egg proxy server.

   If you follow a rather rococo set of network config steps (detailed by 9to5Mac), make a recording, and rename it "PearSauce269.aac" (really? OK, sure, why not) then voila! Free tethering, regardless of your iPhone data plan (but that will still use up your data allocation). [Update: Note that this will only work from your Mac, not your iPad, as it requires you to create an ad-hoc network to start with. If you went ahead and spent $2 thinking this would tether your iPad, sorry about that.]

   Given that the discovery of this feature was coincidentally and/or conveniently timed for a Friday evening, when the App Store minders have presumably fixie-biked off into the Cupertino sunset, there's at least some chance the app will still be on the store in the morning -- but needless to say this is not a good long-term plan for tethering.

   [hat tip Giz]Another stealth tethering app will probably be pulled off the App Store any second... (Updated) originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:30:00 EST.  Please see our terms for use of feeds.Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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