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- From: dbak@elm.lle.rochester.edu (Douglas Baker)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Can Cable TV Descramblers really be detec from outside ???
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.125414.8987@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 12:54:14 GMT
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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:
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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.
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- >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.
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- >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.
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- 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....
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- Doug
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