The obscured crime of wise Pinoys
1:08 AM
More and more Filipinos now know Internet. As the increase has continue to persist, the sad part is that, not everybody gets access. The culprit: Internet is expensive.
As the rival telecom companies never come to terms to improve the internet speed in the country as well as to minimize its cost, ordinary and wise Filipinos come to an option: to bug and hack for free or low cost internet connection.
How does it take place? In Facebook group such as ALAMAT NG FREENET, "hackers" and "buggers" were two operational terms used to refer the persons who find ways to gain free or low cost internet access. Although these entities were quite synonymous, they differ somewhat when it comes to their ways in gaining free access.
Buggers are those who find any technical glitches to a telecom company promos. To bug, a bugger undergone arduous process of “trial and error” and patient and spend little amount of money. A bugger may buy a SIM, then follow a simple trick such as registering to the different text, voice or surf promos at a time, then text a certain word to a service number, restart the phone, then immediately may enjoy free surfing which is low cost - in some cases with long expiration.
Hackers are those who get an internet access through developing or manipulating a certain program, install it on a device, then run it to gain internet access. Examples involve cracked Psiphon, Free VPN, and Black Lantern. Hacking is illegal. But there are so many ways to hide your visibility while browsing illegally.
“Illegal free internet” has been one of the reasons why Facebook accounts with fake names mushroomed over the Internet. These fake Facebook accounts were used to feel secure while public conversations take place in Facebook groups about the recent hows of bugging and hacking. This medium became popular as forum sites such as PHCorner.com outside Facebook were unaccessible when you have only using free data with Internet.org. Most popular Facebook groups in hacking and bugging include ALAMAT NG FREENET, GLOBE BUGGERS and RRR INFOTECH.
Buggers and hackers unite all over the Philippines in web and independently explore for any promo glitch. When found it works, they broadcast it to these popular Facebook groups for the benefit of all.
“Sharing” has been the foundation why these certain group page of hackers and buggers exist while its weakness is “disloyalty of members”. Disloyal members are those who tap telco companies to report the discovered promo glitches and cracked applications before it widely spread.
If you are updated with bugging and hacking, I would say that you may save a lot of money. Therefore, we can say that the competition today is not just between rival telco companies but it is also between telco companies and smart consumers who illegaly use their internet services.
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