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Article #15935Re: Can Cable TV Descramblers really be detec from outside ???
From: David Salamon
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:30
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:30
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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. David -------------------------------------------------------------- David Salamon Physics Graduate Student (Slave) d-salamon@uiuc.edu University of Illinois --------------------------------------------------------------
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