It’s one thing to hack your cable modem for your own personal edification, but it’s another matter to turn around and sell hacked cable modems to people. I mean, that’s just common sense, right? Smoke all the dope you want, just don’t sell it to kids on the street. (You’ll note I used the word “dope” like a 70-year-old man.) Some guy in Massachusetts, and he now faces up to 20 years in prison and fines up to $250,000. OK, so the sentence is 100 percent over-the-top, but that’s what a single count of conspiracy and a single count of wire fraud can get you in the Federal courts.
The guy, 26-year-old Matthew Delorey, was selling hacked Comcast cable modems that enabled users to obtain free Internet access. The hack wasn’t sophisticated: all he did was modify the modems’ MAC address so that it appeared to be another modem, one whose owner was paying for Internet access.
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But that’s a crime, they say, so off with his head.
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