Getting rid of cable revisit[views:25309][posts:91]______________________________________ [Aug 28,2012 4:13pm - the_reverend ""] you seem to have forgot that sports are terrible |
| _______________________________________________ [Aug 28,2012 7:54pm - illinoisenemaBradness ""] ONLY IF YOU HAVE AN EARTHLINK SUBSCRIPTION |
| _______________________________________ [Aug 10,2013 10:14am - the_reverend ""] No more cable. |
| ____________________________________ [Aug 10,2013 11:02am - Congrats ""] [img] |
| _______________________________________ [Aug 12,2013 10:47am - the_reverend ""] How the hell do I watch breaking bad now? |
| _______________________________________ [Aug 12,2013 10:49am - the_reverend ""] nice! project free tv has it. |
| _______________________________ [Aug 12,2013 11:38am - ark ""] for shows like that, torrents are swarming right after it airs, that's how i usually get it. i don't use the media server anymore, just straight PC to TV. |
| _______________________________________ [Aug 12,2013 11:49am - the_reverend ""] CAS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Alert_System |
| ______________________________ [Aug 12,2013 2:45pm - ark ""] my cable modem's mac address is spoofed and doesn't afraid of anything. |
| _______________________________________________________________________ [Aug 12,2013 2:48pm - DYAi6 is an acronym for DESTROYYOUALOTINJUNE ""] We had to get a splash guard for that very reason. |
| ______________________________ [Aug 12,2013 2:51pm - ark ""] and in the broader sense of things, the CCI can remove that splash guard and just directly suck my balls. |
| ______________________________________ [Aug 12,2013 3:13pm - the_reverend ""] ark said:my cable modem's mac address is spoofed and doesn't afraid of anything.that makes no sense... |
| ______________________________ [Aug 12,2013 3:24pm - ark ""] so, i have a motorola modem with a modified firmware that allows you to flash a different mac address and serial# directly onto the hardware. using a list of known good mac addresses that are connected to ISP, i flash the modem with one of those, and as soon as it enters the analog lines, there is no difference to the ISP where the signal is coming from, as long as the frequency matches. essentially my modem becomes a valid modem that charter recognizes. i've only paid a basic cable fee ($20/mo) for almost 6 years just so i can get a digital cable line into the house. if i use a mac address that ISP doesn't recognize, a webpage pops up belonging to the ISP that asks me for my account number and mac address. as long as i have one that's already validated by ISP, no worries and free 30 mbit internet. http://haxorware.com/ |
| ________________________________________________ [Aug 12,2013 4:03pm - RTTP CLEANUP CREW SR. ""] [IMGphttp://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0mihwU1Ty1qexq6mo1_400.jpg[/IMG]19 |
| ________________________________________________ [Aug 12,2013 11:40pm - illinoisenemaBradness ""] or you could just install Peer Block, and keep it updated. http://www.peerblock.com/ |
| _______________________________________ [Aug 13,2013 12:22am - the_reverend ""] I have peer block and do keep it updated. |
| _______________________________________ [Aug 13,2013 12:26am - the_reverend ""] ark said:so, i have a motorola modem with a modified firmware that allows you to flash a different mac address and serial# directly onto the hardware. using a list of known good mac addresses that are connected to ISP, i flash the modem with one of those, and as soon as it enters the analog lines, there is no difference to the ISP where the signal is coming from, as long as the frequency matches. essentially my modem becomes a valid modem that charter recognizes. i've only paid a basic cable fee ($20/mo) for almost 6 years just so i can get a digital cable line into the house. if i use a mac address that ISP doesn't recognize, a webpage pops up belonging to the ISP that asks me for my account number and mac address. as long as i have one that's already validated by ISP, no worries and free 30 mbit internet. http://haxorware.com/ I know all about mac authentication and NAC-type security. I work at a networking company and work with those protocols intimately. Anyhow, that does nothing to protect you from CAS since they can track you down based on your ip if they really wanted to. MACs are L2 so when you switch or route, those go away (FBD tables). Any way, the fact that the cable company doesn't screen for that is hilarious. At some point those MACs will probably go bad if the account they are attached to goes away. |
| _______________________________________ [Aug 13,2013 12:28am - the_reverend ""] illinoisenemaBradness said:or you could just install Peer Block, and keep it updated. http://www.peerblock.com/ http://lifehacker.com/5986961/the-copyrigh...x-strikes-anti+piracy-program-works Anonymizing your BitTorrent traffic with a proxy is one way to go, and a virtual private network is arguably even better. A a private BitTorrent tracker is also a good idea. Blocklists like PeerBlock will not keep you safe, so don't even bother with them. Of course, if you want to ditch BitTorrent completely, Usenet is simple to set up and not tracked by the Copyright Alert System. |
| ______________________________ [Aug 13,2013 8:13am - ark ""] the_reverend said: ark said:so, i have a motorola modem with a modified firmware that allows you to flash a different mac address and serial# directly onto the hardware. using a list of known good mac addresses that are connected to ISP, i flash the modem with one of those, and as soon as it enters the analog lines, there is no difference to the ISP where the signal is coming from, as long as the frequency matches. essentially my modem becomes a valid modem that charter recognizes. i've only paid a basic cable fee ($20/mo) for almost 6 years just so i can get a digital cable line into the house. if i use a mac address that ISP doesn't recognize, a webpage pops up belonging to the ISP that asks me for my account number and mac address. as long as i have one that's already validated by ISP, no worries and free 30 mbit internet. http://haxorware.com/ I know all about mac authentication and NAC-type security. I work at a networking company and work with those protocols intimately. Anyhow, that does nothing to protect you from CAS since they can track you down based on your ip if they really wanted to. MACs are L2 so when you switch or route, those go away (FBD tables). Any way, the fact that the cable company doesn't screen for that is hilarious. At some point those MACs will probably go bad if the account they are attached to goes away. how can they track based on ip? That's just a number right? The wan ip assigned to my modem belongs to a MAC address on someone else's account. To them, I don't even have Internet or a modem. The MACs do expire and then I just put in another MAC address, which hasn't happened in months with my current one. |
| ______________________________ [Aug 13,2013 8:28am - ark ""] And even so, those warnings, never seen one in my life. I guess the account holder is getting them, when I happen to actually download something protected by cas |
| ______________________________________ [Aug 13,2013 9:03am - the_reverend ""] you are talking NAT addresses. Correct, the outside world doesn't know about your local ip or local MAC cause they are bridged, but the router. But of course, they know your WAN IP address and can track it back to your address. I have this one little cli app that I helped write which tracks ips through a network and all you have to do is track back the ports to find them. (it's like tracert, but for ips/macs/physical ports). what comcast chooses to do or not is on them. How CAS works with warnings, idk. |
| ______________________________ [Aug 13,2013 9:14am - ark ""] the_reverend said:you are talking NAT addresses. Correct, the outside world doesn't know about your local ip or local MAC cause they are bridged, but the router. But of course, they know your WAN IP address and can track it back to your address. I have this one little cli app that I helped write which tracks ips through a network and all you have to do is track back the ports to find them. yeah, I can see that, they could find the physical address of my router, through that or process of elimination, even if they ever did that's a stretch to actually do anything with that info. And thank fuck it's not Comcast. |
| ______________________________________ [Aug 13,2013 9:32am - the_reverend ""] "process of elimination".. you know that there are computers out there in the world now? |
| _______________________________________________________________________ [Aug 13,2013 9:38am - DYAi6 is an acronym for DESTROYYOUALOTINJUNE ""] Aaron, you're just jealous of all our downloads. I have so many downloads, sometimes I just delete something so I can download it all over again. |
| ______________________________________ [Aug 13,2013 1:47pm - the_reverend ""] I got miles and miles of email styles |
| _______________________________________________________________________ [Aug 13,2013 3:33pm - DYAi6 is an acronym for DESTROYYOUALOTINJUNE ""] Email ooh ahh email |
| _______________________________________________________________________ [Aug 13,2013 3:34pm - DYAi6 is an acronym for DESTROYYOUALOTINJUNE ""] I can do it I can do it 9 times |
| __________________________________________ [Aug 13,2013 4:25pm - largefreakatzero ""] Shouldn't you be upgrading to your i8 version? I heard from some old news that it is August now. |
| _______________________________________ [Aug 13,2013 5:16pm - hungtableeed ""] Cable is rubbish, I would never pay for it. It blows my mind how expensive it it. I haven't had it for years and the last time I turned on a t.v. with cable I was terrified when I saw the news. The shit is straight propaganda. I use amazon prime (which just added history's The Universe) and it has totally worked for supplemental entertainment. There is plenty of good history and science programs and their movie list updates quite often. |
| ______________________________________ [Aug 14,2013 9:17am - the_reverend ""] Here is the thing, amazon is just another thing to pay for. I'm trying to stop paying for things. Right now, hulu on my HTPC is working just great. |
| _______________________________________ [Aug 14,2013 9:27am - Terry Silver ""] Visualize: this is not a bunch of sticks and pipes anymore; this is not some pathetic mugger who needs a couple of dollars so he can eat. No! This is a deadly, hungry wrecking machine who wants to detatch your head from the rest of your body and mount it over his fireplace! |
| _______________________________ [Aug 14,2013 10:30am - ark ""] the_reverend said:they know your WAN IP address and can track it back to your address. presumably the ISP could tell that they have 2 different WAN IPs assigned to the same MAC right? then they could get metadata from my router i guess, but it's still a longshot to get my actual physical location from that. ...............right? |
| ______________________________________ [Aug 14,2013 1:15pm - the_reverend ""] 2 ips on 1 mac should be a red flag. not your router, your cablemodem. They would see the upstream port that your MAC is on which maps to a block. Match that to the address of the mac's owner. |
| _______________________________________________________________________ [Aug 14,2013 1:19pm - DYAi6 is an acronym for DESTROYYOUALOTINJUNE ""] Shit, we better buy a dog and put up curtains. |
| _______________________________________ [Aug 14,2013 5:57pm - hungtableeed ""] With Amazon I was planning on going to town come christmas season and get a bunch of crap for people shipped for free but I hear you there. The biggest reason why we didn't get cable in the first place was because we didn't want to have to afford it in our bills and what did we do? We got amazon for $80/year and stinkin netflix for $7/month or whatever it is. Truthfully, neither are really anything to write home about in the end. |
| _____________________________________________________ [Aug 14,2013 6:59pm - grilled_dickcheese_sandwich ""] Cable is a rip off. Everything is free on the internet. |
| _____________________________________ [Aug 14,2013 7:59pm - death-metal ""] ark said:they could find the physical address of my router, through that or process of elimination Traffic fingerprinting as a result of deep packet (anal) inspection has vastly improved. I don't know if they'd apply it, for business reasons (if your customers are mildly ripping you off, but paying for the service because they can rip you off, then it might make sense to tolerate it). |
| _______________________________________________ [Aug 14,2013 8:51pm - illinoisenemaBradness ""] the_reverend said: illinoisenemaBradness said:or you could just install Peer Block, and keep it updated. http://www.peerblock.com/ http://lifehacker.com/5986961/the-copyrigh...x-strikes-anti+piracy-program-works Anonymizing your BitTorrent traffic with a proxy is one way to go, and a virtual private network is arguably even better. A a private BitTorrent tracker is also a good idea. Blocklists like PeerBlock will not keep you safe, so don't even bother with them. Of course, if you want to ditch BitTorrent completely, Usenet is simple to set up and not tracked by the Copyright Alert System. ya know, this was supposedly in effect in February. I was getting copyright infringement emails from Comcast about once a month. Since Feb. NONE. I'm not sure what the deal is, maybe the new system isn't as good as they thought it would be? |
| _______________________________________ [Aug 15,2013 11:17am - the_reverend ""] death-metal said: ark said:they could find the physical address of my router, through that or process of elimination Traffic fingerprinting as a result of deep packet (anal) inspection has vastly improved. I don't know if they'd apply it, for business reasons (if your customers are mildly ripping you off, but paying for the service because they can rip you off, then it might make sense to tolerate it).Your knowledge of traffic profile is about a decade behind at this point, I'm guessing. Heck, I can barely keep up with it all... but they use signatures a lot not. Signatures can be made of anything basically. I know there are line-rate analyzers that will look for signature of anything and then can take your traffic and do whatever they want to do to it with policy based connections. There are things I've seen from my company in the past few years.... scary things. Neither of that is important though there. CAS works by invading the p2p networks. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 4,2014 9:15am - Alx_Casket ""] Plex = my needs are met in the TV room and on my mobile. Also, Monday afternoon commutes involve downloading the latest episode of GoT on my phone to stream it later to my TV using Skifta. |
| ____________________________________ [Feb 12,2015 1:00pm - Alx_Casket ""] Just bought a jailbroken Amazon Fire TV unit with XBMC and a bunch of other extras loaded on. |
| ______________________________________ [Feb 12,2015 1:44pm - the_reverend ""] xbmc was ok, plex is better |