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Why the Zinio hack doesn't work anymore? Any new solutions?

Hey guys,

(Sorry that I'm already asking questions/for help when I just joined here...)


Firstly just to tell you about Zinio. Zinio provides online magazines. It has all sorts of magazines, you can find whatever magazine you like. It has a reader which functions well under Windows and OSX. Through Zinio directly, you have to purchase your magazines.

So I found out for Zinio trick, which was 'discovered' about 4 years ago and was still working 2 years ago..The trick or hack was to view websites in this case Zinio.com with agent user switcher as Iphone 1.1.3(in safari browser or in firefox). So you were able to read magazines for free!

Here are some of the tutorials(which I followed):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhiw3H87Tjs

http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials...ktop/3410/

http://lifehacker.com/393296/read-full-m...-an-iphone

I downloaded Safari 3.1 like in the tutorial, so I didn't use the latest versions...


So does anyone know what changed that this trick doesn't work anymore?
Is there still any possible way to do this trick? Anyone familiar to this?
Or is there any other trick to somehow read the magazine for free?!

Also I'm able to view sample magazine(there are just few of them i think) through their online reader, and I actually could read it, but you need to zoom in and you have limited zooms. I just noted that if it's maybe helpful to you...

I know here are a lot of good hackers, would anyone be able to figure this out? I would really appreciate if anyone will give it a try.

thanks in advance
yep i knew this, just try with another handheld device as usergent example android also check if you can see the source on where is the magazines stored on server and check if you find some pattern on the filenames.
thanks for the reply netcat

hmmm well there's no other device to choose as user agent..There's just iPhone or iPod touch. Or I should create it myelf? I mean you can type a custom user agent string..?

Quote:check if you can see the source on where is the magazines stored on server and check if you find some pattern on the filenames

Don't really know how i should do that...I mean If I go to the product page of the magazine and look into page source i can't find some useful stuff about the product, just maybe this :
meta property="og:site_name" content=
meta property="fb:app_id" content=
meta property="og:url" content=

But if I view the image location of the magazines, everyone has the same number at the end.
Example: "http://imgs.zinio.com/magimages/500618902/2011/416185456_370.jpg" - they all have 370 number after the '_'...

Any ideas? i don't have any :/

haha i just XSS attacked the http://www.labnol.org/ site
Code
http://www.labnol.org/?s="><script>alert(String.fromCharCode(66, 108, 65, 99, 75, 73, 99, 101))</script>
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(Sep 4, 2011 11:08 PM)Best Teemo NA Wrote:  haha i just XSS attacked the http://www.labnol.org/ site
Code
http://www.labnol.org/?s="><script>alert(String.fromCharCode(66, 108, 65, 99, 75, 73, 99, 101))</script>

Sorry what does this have with the topic?

(Sep 5, 2011 03:13 AM)zelpre Wrote:  Sorry what does this have with the topic?

it has to do with me being good at XSS mr 5 post. lol
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(Sep 5, 2011 04:50 AM)Best Teemo NA Wrote:  it has to do with me being good at XSS mr 5 post. lol

don't hijack the thread
this guy has a legitimate question
(Sep 5, 2011 04:50 AM)Best Teemo NA Wrote:  it has to do with me being good at XSS mr 5 post. lol

Oh I see.
Sorry, didn't know newbies on this forum aren't allowed to post/ask Mr. Ultimate poster.
(Sep 5, 2011 04:51 AM)***** Wrote:  don't hijack the thread
this guy has a legitimate question

im just posting my find on one of the sites he posted lol come at me brah :)

(Sep 5, 2011 05:00 AM)zelpre Wrote:  Oh I see.
Sorry, didn't know newbies on this forum aren't allowed to post/ask Mr. Ultimate poster.

ohh see you are but maybe you should use google or the search button first before you make a thread asking for something when you only have 6 posts.
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(Sep 5, 2011 05:14 AM)Best Teemo NA Wrote:  im just posting my find on one of the sites he posted lol come at me brah :)


ohh see you are but maybe you should use google or the search button first before you make a thread asking for something when you only have 6 posts.

Believe me I always do a search before I post questions. A BIG search. And all I found are tutorials from the past years. Actually my first aim why to register here is because of this question I have, that's why I joined here, that was the biggest reason. I thought I could find help here or someone could trick Zinio again..
Both of you stop fucking arguing, it just makes you both look stupid. Here's a site with heaps of user agent strings, try looking there: http://www.user-agents.org/
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(Sep 5, 2011 05:40 AM)No‌‌‌‌‌‌ Wrote:  Both of you stop fucking arguing, it just makes you both look stupid. Here's a site with heaps of user agent strings, try looking there: http://www.user-agents.org/

Thanks for the link. I looked at it, but If I got this right, there are just 3 device switchers for mobile and I copied the string to make a new user agent but didn't really work.

Maybe this is the problem(after the iphone 1.1.3 switcher installed you go to that link) :
http://imgs.zinio.com/iphone/ - Just index of files in iphone folder is showed up.

Really don't know if any other user agent will get this working.
Sorry,but I cant help you there.Lets just hope someone else will.

Slovenia FTW! :$
It's a pity that such a script kid waisted this thread.
How is it going with expliting Zinio?
Is there any update on this case?


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