The Rewards of Selling Cable Equipment

[Ernie_C]

Virgin Media set-top box modder gets 5 years ? The Register

[ronster]

"This will protect our existing customers and make it impossible for others to take our services unless they pay for them legitimately."

Had to laugh at this quote!!

[TheCoder]

CY4OR, a digital forensics consultancy, compiled crucial evidence to prove the set-top boxes had been illegally modified

Wonder what highly technical things they did ?

Took the lid off and looked at the talkback line perhaps ????

Bet they charged far more for this service than VM lost because of these particular hackers !

[mintyUK]

" 2,000 illegally modified set-top boxes "

This little hack of ours realy did get embarrissingly out of control didn't it..
And from what i read the latest Naga effort won't stop these gentlemen from
exploiting the sort of people that are prepared to buy a off the shelf solution..

[kugelsack]

Daft bugger - you'd think he would have made enough money with the boxing!

[tiger56]

"later this month, we will introduce a new encryption process in Birmingham, which is already rolling out across other parts of the UK now," said head of fraud and security Malcolm Davies. "This will protect our existing customers and make it impossible for others to take our services unless they pay for them legitimately."

err..no !