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Hack GPON – how to access, change and edit fibre ONTs

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250 points pabs3 | 6 comments | 25 Sep 24 00:41 UTC | HN request time: 1.048s | source | bottom
1. ezekielmudd ◴[25 Sep 24 03:34 UTC] No.41643457[source]▶
It is my understanding that ISPs have management software that watches all the ONT activities. They will mark a rogue ONT as an “alien” and blacklist it.
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2. 1oooqooq ◴[25 Sep 24 04:21 UTC] No.41643654[source]▶
not to mention that its probably jail time in the USA if they want to go after you. All they have to do is to show a judge that you "hacked" their device with some hacker "jtags" to extract the very well protected passwords.
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3. greyface- ◴[25 Sep 24 05:02 UTC] No.41643854[source]▶
People have in fact done prison time for "uncapping" DOCSIS CPE (although I believe only in situations where they were making a commercial operation out of it). I love seeing sites like this, but if I were involved, I'd tread lightly around commercialization, advertising, taking donations, etc.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/oregon-man-sentenced-boston-3...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/01/hacking-cable-mo...

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4. sulandor ◴[25 Sep 24 07:07 UTC] No.41644515{3}[source]▶
jailtime for a mouthful of internet is somewhat of a stretch
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5. appendix-rock ◴[25 Sep 24 09:55 UTC] No.41645576{4}[source]▶
Yes. Exactly.
6. thayne ◴[25 Sep 24 14:16 UTC] No.41647818{3}[source]▶
I assume that is why they have a page full of disclaimers before you get to any content.