Who's been a naughty boy???

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by BBKing

Why would someone clone an STB MAC? You'd need the PID and password in order to get online through it, and those aren't available unless you know who had the original box and tortured them for the information!

Hardly likely to happen then! Unless a dodgy installer is being good to the customer and setting up their connection for them, noting the required information as they do it. Unfortunately not all people can be trusted and the odd bad apple can get into any barrel. I would imagine though that NTL have security measures in force to prevent this sort of thing from happening.

[th'engineer]

Originally Posted by BBKing

Why would someone clone an STB MAC? You'd need the PID and password in order to get online through it, and those aren't available unless you know who had the original box and tortured them for the information!

Your on form this morning running out of reputation points

[mrlipring]

Originally Posted by BBKing

Why would someone clone an STB MAC? You'd need the PID and password in order to get online through it, and those aren't available unless you know who had the original box and tortured them for the information!

Fair point. Not in this situation, but in situations like these. I was just generally making the point that NTL can't always be sure the person portscanning/whatever is the person the modem/mac was originally registered to.