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Cable modem hacker faces potential 40 year prison term
Kevin Spiess - Monday, February 1, 2010 12:07pm (PST)
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A cable modem hacker in Massachusetts is facing up to a 40 year sentence for two charges related to promoting hacked cable modems: one count of conspiracy, and one count of wire fraud.
Hacked cable modems are a growing, inventive new method of theft. With a bit of modification, cable modems can be altered to spoof their MAC address, and the switch causes the cable provider to have a hard time tracing who is sucking bandwidth. Like the theft of cable television, telecom companies are anxious to keep most folks from considering stealing access over paying the monthly charge.
This cable modem hacker -- Matthew Delorey -- no doubt attracted the ire of the authorities after posting 'how to hack' videos on YouTube and other video serving services, showing folks how they could hack the modems. In addition to cable modem hacking videos, under the name of massmodz.com, Matthew Delorey also posted videos on how to hack vending machines, game consoles, and a bunch of other devices. After seeing the videos, two FBI agents bought modems from his website, massmodz.com, and then Mr. Delorey was arrested shortly there after.
Source: After Dawn
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riiaku Feb 1, 10
wow what a retard, selling hacked cable modems, I can understand the videos which is ok and doesn't really violate anything but selling the actual hacked modems was really dumb on his part, especially if he's doing it himself. Whats hypocritical is that people can sell mod chips for xbox 360 and nintendo ds and won't get arrested but a guy who sells a cable modem will. Weird.
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VeGiTAX2 Feb 1, 10
Depends on your region, in the US they've been busting mod chip distribution houses for about a decade now.
Honor Feb 1, 10
he could of got away with it but he had to give it all away so other people could...........im just pissed because my internet sucks lol
bbalcrazy92 Mar 1, 10
yea i knew this guy too he was really cool he modded my wii. sucks what happaned to him
kspiess Mar 1, 10
I'll be pretty sad if he gets a longer prison term than most rapists, bank robbers, and drug dealers. Doesn't seem fair. Hopefully the courts will have mercy on him. I doubt the companies involved lost more than a handful of subscribers over the videos he posted.
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