Re: bad idea..

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fAcEtIOUs Premium join:2002-03-03 kudos:4	reply to rawgerz Re: bad idea.. said by rawgerz: I'm pretty sure I read in a few TOS from different cable CO's that if you do this, you will be permanently disconnected. Or worse, they take you to court? Yes, you can find in the Comcast forum a number of posts of those who got caught and then come whine about how the big bad cable company permanently disconnected them from all cable services - including TV. »/nsearch?q=unc···t7951755 »/nsearch?q=unc···82158759 -- -- Join Red Room Forum BLOG tkjunkmail.blogspot.com My Web Page
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phattieg join:2001-04-29 Winter Park, FL Reviews: ·Bright House 1 edit	said by fAcEtIOUs: Yes, you can find in the Comcast forum a number of posts of those who got caught and then come whine about how the big bad cable company permanently disconnected them from all cable services - including TV. »/nsearch?q=unc···t7951755 »/nsearch?q=unc···82158759 Yes, I will say that the CMTS is capable of running scripts under certain conditions. One condition, exceeding bandwidth allowance, auto-generates a ticket to one of the national ticket centers, and they review the log. Once they find the culprit, they determine the node they are on, and if you are persistent enough (keep hacking with spoofed MAC's) then they simply send a maintainence guy out to the neighborhood, and will disconnect you at the tap. Don't ask me how they locate people, but I think it has something to do with which return channel and amplifier you talk to the node with. Not sure about other companies, but about 3 years ago, I offered to "explore" the ability of undetectable hacking. Lets just say I wasn't able to get permission, but discovered a co-worker's roommate did it, and he was caught within 24 hours, woke up to no internet, came to work with supervisors waiting to talk to him about "why he hacked his modem". Luckly, he DOES have a roommate, and explained the situation. They took his internet away for about 3 years, and it took lots of occasional begging to get it back. He ended up having to prove his roommate wasn't living there anymore. This was 6 years ago, and I'm sure it's gotten much better. Although it would be neat to try, I definately wouldn't do it from my house, or modem. -- SIPPhone/Gizmo # 17476200648 / PIMPNET Chatline / Ran by Asterisk & Slackware 10.1.
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'Hacking the cable modem' > bad idea..