How I was able to hack Github Student Developer Pack offer ?

If you are still a student and not taking full advantage of the GitHub Student Developer Pack, you are gonna regret it in the future. The GitHub Student Developer Pack grants you access to tons of resources for free. You can get a free domain, access to Microsoft Azure service, tons of premium programming resources like frontendmaster, interview preparation guide, developer tools, and so on.

What are you waiting for? Do apply Github Student Developer Pack

So here’s the story. I packed up my stuff at the weekend and moved to my hometown after the completion of my five years long run part-time CS degree. I still have resources from academia like edu mail and still need to visit the college for my graduation ceremony. I thought I was late and that I didn’t leverage my edu mail for the GitHub Student Developer Pack. I applied via my email. I also got this as a response which was supposed to bypass..

our school is a GitHub Campus partner.
Please contact your school administrator to have the correct benefits applied to your GitHub account.

After onwards, again I got the rejection after a few minutes in the mail. I had my university admit card with full date, provided every resource.

Rejection was like this.
Unfortunately, we weren't able to approve your educational discount request for @ajutamangdev.


What happened?
Suggested proof to expedite your approval:

You appear not to be near any campus location for the school you have selected. Your academic affiliation documentation must indicate virtual learning if you are remote. You must configure your browser and operating system to allow location access. You may not use a VPN. If you believe that our information about your school is incomplete or incorrect e.g. missing campus location(s), then please select ‘My selected school has incorrect or incomplete information e.g. domains or campus location’ option when submitting a GitHub Education support ticket.

Seems like they want me to be around my university area which they track during the submission of the form. From here, the real game begins, I intercepted my request during the submission of the form for the Github Student Developer Pack. I found some juicy parameters which are yet to be submitted.

Here you can see my current location, I replaced my current latitude and longitude values with my college one. With the help of Google Maps, I was able to calculate and find out the latitude and longitude of my campus. I forward the edited request via a repeater. After a few minutes, it got approved without being present around my campus.

Having said this, I have fulfilled all the requirements to get the Github Student Developer Pack. I was just outside the University area and was at home. Thought of leveraging my cybersecurity skills and eventually made the fun out of it.

It took 3 days to wait after approval and get the GitHub Developer Student Pack. I appreciate that Github provides awesome resources and a platform to learn and thrive at the college level. Thank you Github for providing an amazing platform.