Hacking your modem could be rather detrimental

[Darth Garth]

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/23727

Thanks to local construction, Wirtz, who never signed a contract with Buckeye, claims his broadband connection was incapable of achieving speeds higher than 128kbps down. By utilizing a Cisco configuration file, he uncapped his Motorola Surfboard modem to 2.5MBps, for what he estimates was no more than a total of 16 hours, and only when he needed to move large files. The worst that could happen to him, he figured, was that his ISP got angry and disconnected his service. He couldn't have been more wrong.

It wasn't long before twelve plain-clothed officers greeted Wirtz at his front door with a search warrant and a smile, coyly asking "Is there anything interesting about your cable?" The officers wound up taking every computer in the house, ironically excluding the PC in his living room that actually installed the uncapping software. Wirtz and his roommate lost at least 8 PC's total, even those who were behind firewalls and incapable of benefitting from the uncapped modem. Law enforcement confiscated all of the hardware from the companies Wirtz built, which contained his work, client contacts, and a book he had written.

 

[Carlhead]

Lol

 

[youradsl]

LOL - Imagine that

 

[4cer]

Can that even be done in SA

 

[Darth Garth]

Can that even be done in SA

In the old cable modems used in the USA , the modems themselves controlled the line speed but not so with DSL.

Technically it is possible to access the routers and DSLAM's via the internet but Telecom do actually employ competent network security people ... anyways the ones I dealt with.

 

[ToAsTeD]

Lol

 

[thisgeek]

That's just sick.