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ezekielmudd ◴[] 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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1oooqooq ◴[] 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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greyface- ◴[] 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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1. sulandor ◴[] No.41644515[source]
jailtime for a mouthful of internet is somewhat of a stretch
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2. appendix-rock ◴[] No.41645576[source]
Yes. Exactly.