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- * Free Cable *
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- * by Defenestrator *
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- WARNING: This file is for information only. Whatever you do with
- the information here is your problem. I am not responsible for what
- you do with the info. Neither is PISS or anyone else who knows me.
-
- This file's gonna become real long so I'll split it up into 5 parts,
- one for each way to defeat the cable.
-
- HOW TO GET SOME FREE CABLE
- --------------------------
-
- With all the crackdowns on cable stealers lately, (well where i live they
- are cracking down) I decided to post all the stuff you can do to
- get free cable from the mf'ers who run the cable company. TV should
- be free, right? At least HBO and Playboy should be free, along with all
- those other channels.
-
- In different places, there are different security measures implemented
- to stop you from getting free stuff, which is my goal in life. There
- are 4 or 5 different ways to get around these, some of which are real
- old and probably don't work anymore.
-
- REAL OLD METHOD - BACKYARD SCRAMBLING
- -------------------------------------
-
- This was the first way they tried to stop people from getting free
- cable. The company would scramble pay stations by placing filters in
- the cable relay according to the channels you had ordered. The way
- you get around this is to go to your cable relay. Cable relays are
- normally located in groups of four. They will be found in groups of 2
- if your house backs up to the street. For example, if you lived in a
- house on the corner of two streets, the house next to you, the house
- behind you, and the house diagonally across from you would all be
- connected on the same relay. I'll try to make a shitty ASCII drawing
- of it.
-
-
- _____________
- |a b e
- |
- |
- |c d
-
- If the houses were connected in groups of four, which is most common, houses a,b,c,and d would
- be connected and the relay would most likely be in c or d's backyard. If they were in groups of
- 2 then a and b would probably be connected, and the relay would be in a's backyard. Don't ask
- me why I drew e. Must be all that caffeine.
-
- The cable is split into 4 different cables at this point, all leading into the dome. Depending
- on what each of the houses subscribe to, certain channels are scrambled. The cable company
- scrambles channels by screwing the cable into a 3" metal cylinder. These cylinders can range in
- size from 2" to 4" but it is usually 3". The cylinder will have a sticker on it with one or
- more letters telling what channel(s) is scrambled. For instance if it scrambles channel 20, it
- will say "NF-G", the last F being the important letter. If it scrambles channels 20,21,22 it
- will say "NF-GHI". Cable companies are weird, so they might put two of these cylinders on, say
- one "NF-G" and one "NF-HI", but it will do the same job the as the aforementioned.
-
- NOTE: This part is reprinted from some file I read.
-
- GETTING CABLE IF YOU DON'T SUBSCRIBE:
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-
- This is for the way you've just read about. First, you'll have to find where the "green dome"
- is. The "green dome" will be either a green dome (of course) or a beige dome, with a yellow
- "Cable theft is naughty" sticker on it. Like I said above, you have a one in 4 (or 1 in 2)
- chance of having it in your own backyard. If it's not in your backyard, then find out whose
- backyard it is in, and go over there some day when they're at work or something.
-
- Now that you've located it, you must get the master lock off. There are three proven methods of
- doing this. You can either kick the living shit out of it, or take some pliers and grab the
- loop that the lock goes into, and bend it off by twisting it back and forth, or take heavy duty
- wire cutters and cut the loop off. And don't worry about the damage you've done; cable men do
- the exact same thing, and if you're lucky they might have done it already! So it won't appear
- to be anything out of the ordinary.
-
- Once you've got the lock off, you can take the big green dome off. You will see a box with 4
- terminals (places to screw in cable):
- _______
- / \
- | o o |
- | | <-- the "box", each "o" is a
- | o o | terminal to screw in a
- \_______/ cable
- | |
- | | <-- metal pole/big cable
- | |
-
- they may or may not be any cable currently screwed into these depending on if you and your
- neighbors subscribe to cable. If someone does not subscribe to cable, there will simply be a
- terminal where the cable is not screwed in. The terminal where the cable is not screwed in
- might have a little dull grey 1" cylinder to prevent you from getting cable free. See, the
- cylinder is hollow and will carry no signal, so if you reconnect the cable to it, you will get
- nothing. DO NOT RIP IT OUT!!! I have, and it will rip the terminal right out with it and then
- the cable company WILL come out to fix it. These things use the same idea as child-proof
- bottles; you have to push "in"/towards the "box" and then unscrew. It will take awhile to do
- this, so don't get perturbed.
-
- So, if you are not currently subscribing to cable at all, there will be an unused terminal, and
- one end of a cable lying somewhere in the dome. All you have to do is reconnect the unused
- cable to the unused terminal, and there you go! Instant Cable with all pay-channels included!
-
- If you are paranoid, you can connect it at 6 pm (when the cable company closes for the day), and
- then disconnect it before 9 or 10 am. This way, even if they come out and look at it, it will
- be disconnected--nothing unusual.
-
- Of course you can leave it hooked up ALL the time. It sounds crazy, but someone I know has had
- the cable company come to his house four times and work on his box, and they didn't say a word!
- I guess the cable linemen don't have records of what everyone subscribes to.
-
- GETTING PAY-CHANNELS IF YOU ARE ALREADY A BASIC SUBSCRIBER:
- -----------------------------------------------------------
-
- If you are currently subscribing to the basic cable service, and you want all the pay-channels
- that you aren't already subscribing for, read this. First you'll want to find out which
- cable/terminal you are. Go turn on your TV and then go out to the green dome and unscrew one of
- the cables from a terminal. Go back inside and see if you've disconnected the cable for
- yourself. Once you find which cable disconnects yours, your done. And DON'T leave your
- neighbors unconnected or the cable company WILL come out.
-
- Remember how I said that cable companies scramble the pay-channels? Using the cylinders? Well,
- those 3" metal cylinders are kept in black plastic cases about 9" long. There are a few ways of
- getting the cylinders off. The first is to get some pliers and grab the cable tight, close to
- the black cylinder. Then grabbing the black cylinder as tight as you can (so that it grips the
- cylinder inside), unscrew the cable. Once you've got one side unscrewed, do the other side.
-
- The second way is to get wire cutters and cut up the edge of the black plastic cylinder. This
- is a lot easier, and this way you actually get to see the 3" metal cylinders inside. I
- recommend this one.
-
- When you're done with that, either attach the cable coming out of the ground to the terminal
- (leaving you with one short length of cable; go use it inside your house or something), or get a
- male-to-male coaxial cable converter and attach the two (this will not look suspicious, as the
- cable company uses them too).
-
- And now you should have some free cable if that's all your cable system does.
-
- Wait for part 2 on the site, which I'll out out when I get some time.
-
- Got stuff to say? Send a e-mail to defenestrator@hotmail.com
- Don't talk about hack stuff because they got sniffers.
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