Like Comcast here in the States, we’ve explored how UK cable broadband operator Virgin Media is deploying DOCSIS 3.0 technology, offering a 50Mbps/2Mbps tier for 51 pounds (.73) per month on a standalone basis, or 35 pounds a month when taken with an 11 pound phone line. Apparently, hackers in the UK have taken advantage of the upgrades to nab free service. According to the Register, about 1,000 hackers managed to “apply the new configuration from Virgin Media’s official up to 50Mbit/s home modem to legacy DOCSIS 1.0 hardware,” allowing them to nab speeds up to 30Mbps — for free. The hackers say the cloned modems make them untraceable, though Virgin says “that’s absolutely not the case”.
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