{"id":648231,"date":"2010-01-29T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5459874"},"modified":"2010-01-29T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T22:40:00","slug":"man-sells-hacked-comcast-modems-to-fbi-gets-up-to-20-years-in-prison-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/648231","title":{"rendered":"Man Sells Hacked Comcast Modems to FBI, Gets Up to 20 Years in Prison [Crime]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Delorey’s business idea was to sell hacked Comcast modems which allow free Internet access. He just forgot to avoid FBI agents, conspiracy, wire fraud, and $250,000 fines. Now he may get 20 years in prison to rethink things.<\/p>\n

Delorey wasn’t doing anything insanely difficult. He was just modifying modems’ MAC addresses to match those of modems whose owners were old-fashioned and actually paying for Internet access. He would’ve probably gotten away with selling them for a while longer had some of his buyers not been undercover FBI agents. Whoops.<\/p>\n

The resulting conspiracy and wire fraud charges held up in federal court and a ridiculously huge fine and prison sentence were suggested. Yeah, the guy’s a criminal—a stupid one—but come on. 20 years and $250K are just a bit overboard. I hope the final sentence and fine are a bit more reasonable. [Computer World<\/a> via Crunch Gear<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Pictured modem is probably not one of the hacked ones. It’s a picture by chaunceydavis818<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n



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Matthew Delorey’s business idea was to sell hacked Comcast modems which allow free Internet access. He just forgot to avoid FBI agents, conspiracy, wire fraud, and $250,000 fines. Now he may get 20 years in prison to rethink things. Delorey wasn’t doing anything insanely difficult. He was just modifying modems’ MAC addresses to match those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2IDl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}