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Originally Posted by wa2ise
I remember, back in 1980, someone saying that they bought a new cable ready TV set so they could tune in HBO (which apparently on a channel somewhere between 6 and 7, not scrambled). seems that the cable company had supplied subscribers cable boxes, with a microprocessor based denial system (that is, it looks for codes in the vertical interval and decides if you are allowed to watch that channel). Also heard that people would drill a hole, thru the vents, into the micro chip, killing it and thus allowing everything to be viewed. Seems the micro wasn't used to tune the channels.
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Do I smell an urban legend here? Drilling a chip without causing deadly
shorts sounds like an unlikely proposition...