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In article <1992Dec21.002312.27582@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> dbak@elm.lle.rochester.edu (Douglas Baker) writes:
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>
>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.
>
>        1) use a sensitive spectrum analyzer to find out which channel
>is being watched by looking at the local oscillator freq.
>
>        2) modulate a signal into the channels which aren't part of
>basic and when these pay channels are watched the signal would be
>radiated out the picture tube and detected.
>
>        If anyone knows if any of the above methods are used or how
>this is done could you reply to the net ?  I'm sure many others out
>there will be interested.

Not really related, but - I know in our area we have cable boxes
that transmit back billing information (IE - what pay-per-view stuff
you watched) on at least a daily basis. 
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