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Cable Modem Hacking Goes Mainstream
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-05-08

An ambitious hackware project promises to bring illicit broadband "uncapping" to the masses, and with it the risks that come with high-speed hijinks.

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IP theft and PP theft are completely different. 2002-05-10
Henry Stern
There is a big difference between intellectual property theft and physical property theft. It is a moot point as to whether stealing a piece of software is theft, but uncapping a cable modem denies service to everyone else in the neighbourhood and raises the infrastructure costs for the ISP.

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