Case example with numbers: The damage that pirate radio does in South Florida

[dspxscott]

2.4 or 5.8 Ghz wireless bridges for the audio over IP - No ISP's! That would be extremely difficult to locate.

 

[liradioprez]

Considering that the pirate stole the AC...chances are he stole the modem as well...I know that sometimes large buildings like that have mini "sub stations" where a service provider IE: high speed internet/cable send a large feed to the building and split it up to the individual units from there. Or it could have been registered to the building management ect and they weren't using it.
What I don't understand is when you sign up for high speed internet with a modem you must provide a physical address...the modem was located in an elevator service room..doesn't really count..so where does the ISP think it's located?

 

[LA_Guy]

Of all the services, cable Internet is by FAR the easiest to steal. All you have to do is clone someone's MAC address that's not located in your node to your modem.
And, its completely untraceable too-if they try they get the address of the real modem owner. Otherwise they have you narrowed down to what? 2000 homes?

You can find hacked modems for sale all over Ebay. They use an add on program that makes MAC cloning as easy as putting the new MAC address into the unit and clicking "apply".

Iin fact, D Link's cable modem doesn't even need to be hacked-you can telnet into it and make its MAC whatever you want.

There's also MAC sniffing programs all over the net.

Here's interesting reading: http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Cable...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235272618&sr=1-1

 

[RadioFixerCLE]

Re: Case example with numbers: The damage that pirate radio does in South Florid

As far as I'm concerned, if it screws around with a Bible-Banger's coverage, more power to the pirate.

At least the pirate was doing something local and interesting, I'm sure. Judging by that map, it doesn't seem like WMKL was hurting either....only a small sliver of their coverage area was being splattered.

Considering the quality workmanship of this pirate transmitter, I'm willing to bet my colleague's Optimod 8100 that this renegade engineer had help from the building crew.

 

[mp3RadioGuy]

Here's another guy serving his little community with good music and he gets shut down. I'm sure now that the frequency is clear, another Bible Banger will stick a lousy translator on air.

http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/content/2009/mar/06/loss-radio-station-death-family/#comments

 

[kd8hho]

I'm sure now that the frequency is clear, another Bible Banger will stick a lousy translator on air.

yep, i can see it coming. they will have a k-love or some other b/s translator there,

i still think translators need to be banned

 

[xmusicmatt]

Religious folks are not the only ones guilty.. Where I live there is no less than 3 stations running NPR's all things considered.. In fact two of them are "Class B" FM licenses.