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Old 23-09-2021, 11:07   #18
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Re: Virgin Media Customers Sued for Piracy

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Originally Posted by roughbeast View Post
Is this a scenario where a glitch could be deployed as a weapon? Is there a circumstance where an ISP, determined to prevent customers from using the service to commit piracy, might build in a modem exploit that enables sanctioned sniffers to detect ones IP address, even if hiding behind VPN for the purpose of concealing identity.

I doubt it as the exploit is only in the sh3, what i don’t doubt is that this vulnerability has been exposed for months and is still not fixed as of yet.

Iirc an IP address is not a legally viable means of identifying an individual anyways, these letters USUALlY end up nowhere.
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