A common “junk e-mail” sent out these days seems to be from people selling the know-how to build cable descrambler boxes. For a fee of, say, $13.95, the list of items needed to build a cable box can ...

NEW BEDFORD -- Two men in a Colony Cablevision van rolled up to the next house on the list, a sleepy single-family in the West End. In the home, they suspected, city residents, cable subscribers, were ...

QUESTION: I’ve received several unsolicited e-mails regarding a “legal cable TV descrambler.” It would cost me less than $30 and would save me more than $400 a year in cable rates. Is this device ...

imported legitimate analog cable converters, possibly from Taiwan. They then soldered a 50-cent computer chip into the boxes, which turned them into cable descramblers, Genna said. restitution charges ...

Ever get one of these spams in the daily mix of get-rich schemes and porn offers? "Try this 100 percent legal cable TV descrambler FREE for 30 days!" Maryland reader John Jacobsen did and wondered: Is ...

Q: I’ve always just assumed that cable descramblers are as illegal as tapping into your neighbor’s service. So what’s with all these pop-ups and spams hawking “completely legal” descramblers? Man, I ...

When the FBI raided the New Haven, Conn., home of Robert R. Radil in 1994, it came up with a gold mine of information on his computer hard drive — the customer list for his illicit cable descrambler ...

Just out of curiosity, has anyone written software that can descramble cable signals for a video capture card? This seems like something that would be kinda feasable with all that computing power ...

When the FBI raided the New Haven home of Robert R. Radil in 1994, it came up with a goldmine of information on his computer hard drive-the customer list for his illicit cable descrambler business.