Last week, Starbucks and AT&T began their nationwide rollout of AT&T Wi-Fi access at Starbucks stores - with the surprise addition of free access to iPhone users with a valid AT&T Wireless phone number.

But the security isn't exactly high-tech... "There's a loophole that allows anyone to get free Wi-Fi if you switch your browser's user agent to Mobile Safari," according to Karl at BroadbandReports.

To clarify: "In Safari, you can select the iPhone user agent through the Develop menu (which you can enable by navigating to Preferences -> Advanced and checking 'Show Develop menu in menu bar,'" writes Lifehacker's Adam Pash.

"We can't imagine this is a hole that won't get plugged real fast, so get it while the gettin's good," advises Engadget's Joshua Topolsky...

More here from Slashdot ... more here from MacRumors ... more here from ZDNet ... and more here from Gizmodo.

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