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 ...

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.

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 ...

i have a tv tuner pci card in my pc and i have basic cable. i was wondering if there was some software out there that would descramble the premium channels. Hehe... I was actually curious about the ...

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 ...