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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.


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...


I assume that is why they have a page full of disclaimers before you get to any content.


jailtime for a mouthful of internet is somewhat of a stretch


Yes. Exactly.




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