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In article <BzLJF2.JJ6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Salamon) writes:
>dbak@elm.lle.rochester.edu (Douglas Baker) writes:
>
>>In our local paper there has been talk of detecting Il-legal cable TV
>>descrablers from outside the home.  I can think of two possible ways
>>this can be done but there may be others.
>
>I suspect that it is simpler than this.  Most people who have "illegal" cable
>descramblers are buying a complete unit by mail order that is essentially 
>the same one used locally.  The only difference is that the mail order unit
>is configured to descramble everything.
>
>Since most of the fancy commercial descramblers are remotely configurable
>or something like that, the cable company can probably send a "request ID"
>signal to all lines and see which boxes answer with a configuration that does
>not match what the subscriber pays for.


	To use one of these "black baxes" you need to run it through
a channel selector first.  The "black boxes" usually only work on channel 3.
Also, peolpe with only basic and cable reddy TV's only have to plug the cable
dirrectly in the TV itself.  To the cable Co., they both would look the same
looking in the wire even in a addresable system.  Or at least I think....




						Doug