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Hacker gets jail time for selling rooted cable boxes
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article published on 29 June, 2012
Cable modem modifier Ryan Harris has received jail time for selling rooted cable boxes to customers who wished to not pay for their cable access.
Authorities had claimed Harris was selling hacked cable modems and software "that allowed users to bypass restrictions that providers placed on cable modems to filter content and cap usage."
The hacker was sentenced to three year in prison ... [ read the full article ]
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stuntman_
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29. June 2012 @ 14:24 |
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lol damn now that I know I want to buy one
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29. June 2012 @ 14:42 |
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I'm going to self-publish a book called "How Not to Publish a Book That Encourages Others to Commit Crimes That You're Presently Committing For Dummies".
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29. June 2012 @ 15:20 |
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Live Free or Die.
The rule above all the rules is: Survive !
Capitalism: Funnel most of the $$$ to the already rich.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 30. June 2012 @ 17:56
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numscull
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29. June 2012 @ 20:17 |
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Anything out there for the DSL user? Not that I want one. Just curious. ; )
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numscull
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29. June 2012 @ 20:32 |
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Originally posted by cpspoo:
I'm going to self-publish a book called "How Not to Publish a Book That Encourages Others to Commit Crimes That You're Presently Committing For Dummies".
Yes, he was an idiot. He probably placed an ad in craigslist that said,"Why pay a high monthly fee for cable internet when, for only a one time charge of $99, you can have unlimited internet at top speed!" Plus a large sign on his front lawn.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 29. June 2012 @ 20:33
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hearme0
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30. June 2012 @ 02:35 |
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I'm all about punishment for the "stealing" part but not at all about it for the removal of speed caps. Perhaps if the broadband/tv/ISP market was more competitive and not so monopolistic, people like this would have less of a need to exist but every month I pay my bill.........I feel like I'm being screwed and extorted.
I have a whopping choice of 2 cable companies. Comcast or ATT. ATT has better service here and quad tuners and I'm anti-Comcast through and through. Bring about 5 or 6 and see prices drop.
F them! Now I just got myself all pissed off.
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30. June 2012 @ 04:49 |
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o great another petty hacker thats gonna go to jail and come out a jail harded violent criminal.
custom built gaming pc from early 2010,ps2 with 15 games all original,ps3 500gbs with 5 games all original,yamaha amp and 5.1channel surround sound speakers,46inch sony lcd smart tv.
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biglo30
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30. June 2012 @ 10:28 |
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That sucks, they should have just made him pay the money back and put him on house arrest, its not like he killed anyone. He just stole from billion dollar companies to make a few extra on his end.
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Hopium
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30. June 2012 @ 14:53 |
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he profitedOriginally posted by biglo30:
That sucks, they should have just made him pay the money back and put him on house arrest, its not like he killed anyone. He just stole from billion dollar companies to make a few extra on his end.
he profited if he really cared he would have disclosed his methods and shared with the world. instead he made money from thievery and should be held accountable.
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1. July 2012 @ 02:51 |
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I have to admit to hacking cable modems when I was a teenager. My ISP when I was 14/15 was providing us with a 512kbps / 128kbps service, only what we got was far lower than that.
I had a Motorola Surfboard and it was vulnerable to the old TFTP server trick. Basically, you found out the IP address of the TFTP server of your ISP and used a tool (from TCNiSO) to download the config .bin file that your modem was remotely set to download (another TCNiSO tool would probe the Motorola modem for the name of the config file), set your local machine to the same IP address, run TFTP server software with a modified version of the config file (another tool would let you decrypt and edit the DOCSIS config file, and then save it)... then simply reboot the modem and it would retrieve the modified config file from your computer instead of from your ISP's server.
Later on with an upgraded modem I had to use different software to do something similar, only this time you had to flood tftp packets to the modem and hope to trick it into using the config file you provided.
Of course now I'm an adult and don't do such things ;-) But then again with modern cable networks, where's the need to do so? I'm currently on 60Mbps, does me just fine :-) The only modifications I've made are to some wireless routers I had, where i flashed ddWRT firmware instead of the stock firmware to add some functionality or to allow me to use a wireless access point as a repeater etc.
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Mr_Bill06
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1. July 2012 @ 05:27 |
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Should be the other way around, this guy should not be going to prison. These ISP's already screw over so many people with there monopolies. I think prison time should be kept for people who have hurt people physically. I doubt they would consider it since prisons make tons of money hence why the U.S. has more people in prison then any other country.
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1. July 2012 @ 13:26 |
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Create the book and leave. That's what somebody smart would have done.
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mauro125
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1. July 2012 @ 22:01 |
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Rooted modems lol deff not the proper name for them, they use diagnostic firmware that its provided to the isp by the manufacturers, a lot egitimate uses for them. sbhakcer.net..
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5. July 2012 @ 11:34 |
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Good God Almighty, did this guy have a really poor attorney or what??
Geordie in Houston...
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