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Originally Posted by 100meg
they wont
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With a bit of work VM could easily put a stop to this nonsense once and for all, the problem is that the work they would need to do costs more money than they're currently spending on dealing these thieves as they discover them.
When we see the cost/benefit values start to converge a little we will hopefully see some action from Virgin.
As you say, it's probably impossible to absolutely 100% stop the modems from being 'hacked' (oh how I hate the use of that word in this context) - it shouldn't take too much time to make the act of doing so either cryptographically/mathematically unfeasible though.
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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
Make it hard enough and then only the most skilled will break in.
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The problem is that it only takes one person, and frequently you'll find that these sorts of 'hacks' are the result of either one person or an
extremely limited group of people.
What happens then is that they make their work available to the moronic masses with sufficient intelligence (just) to follow the written instructions provided for them and ask for help if they get stuck, who then start calling themselves l33t hax0rs and bragging about how great it is to be thieving ****.