One who knows
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| a little more background for you
"Mastadogg" will be charged under US code 18.1029 sections (a)(9) and 1029 (b)(2) Fraud and Related activity to access devices. I won't regurgitate the whole law, but in a nutshell it is illegal to have devices that access common networks that can change their identities IF you have ****intent to commit fraud****.
The NJ court made a mistake as the complaint was supposed to be sealed until the warrant was issued. Needless to say the FBI is a little upset.
During the course of the investigation it was found that for a period he was advertising "Free Internet Modems", Remotely logging into his customers computers and setting up the modems for them, Providing tutorial CD's with Pirated copyrighted software. Advertising and bragging in his irc channel on Efnet about how these modems could be used to steal service and make you "invisible on the net" so you could commit more fraud without being caught (he has a history with botnets and Credit Card Fraud). He had many conversations with undercover officers that showed his true intentions were without a doubt illegal and his only purpose was to sell equipment to steal service from Service providers. He also was involved with a site that did Satellite service theft and had them convinced that his equipment would help their customers be "invisible" for updates. His Canadian partner that is linked with Derengle worked with him to steal the Certificates from modems that were paying for legit services and he was selling these certificates for between $50 and $70 USF. (Even Docsis 3.0 systems are not immune btw people, don't let the ISP's fool you).He also used to give out large lists of modem HFC macs to people to help make it easier for them to steal service.
He had the attitude that he could say anything he wanted on his irc channel and he would be immune. One of his partners in the USA was also involved with various cybercrimes like breaking into Charter (they are well known by Mr. Nelson at Charter). And he was involved with a well known ddos skiddie that went by the name "dshocker" that was recently incarcerated.
If you look at the Modem firmware "Haxorware" you will see on one of it's hardcoded pages that cablehack.net is strictly prohibited from distributing and selling it. The reason that was put there was because Mastadogg had been involved with a group that worked with designing and building diagnostic modems. He was kicked out of that group because he had started a "theft of service" enterprise behind their backs, they were into teaching Docsis systems and helping ISP customers find out the TRUTH about the BS that many ISP's provide. He did not develop or discover anything new, he simply stole programs,firmware and information from others, twisted it around and took credit for it. He was also responsible for committing ddos and hack attacks against the site that he stole information from (One example is Mastadogg's group was involved in spamming kiddie porn with the admins picture "photoshoped" on the corner and his personal information plastered on it). He had also tried to hack into many of their servers and home systems to be able to try and blackmail them into giving more information to aid his little "business venture", since he and his "team" could not create anything original themselves.
IF you do your research and find the group he was kicked out from, DON'T ask them how to steal internet, they will ban you or just delete your post. But you will learn information that the ISP's don't want you to know.
He has been shunned by every Ethical Hacking group out there, and by any educated computer user. I found some interesting reading about him here in the original wired blog;
»blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/0···ker.html
the FBI complaint can be seen here;
»blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/···aint.pdf
I would not recommend that you try and buy one of his Theft of Service devices from him, because as is mentioned in the Wired and FBI statements, his financial records are already in the hands of federal authorities. And it would be hard for YOU to say that you bought without intent after all this publicity.
Diagnostic modems are perfectly legal and are VERY useful tools in educated hands to find problems in a Docsis network. (They are also manufactured by almost every modem maker) Or in a lot of cases to find out if a ISP is lying to you (becoming more and more common as they oversell their bandwidth and don't invest in infrastructure). Which is why it is against the terms of service with the service providers. |
