A common “junk e-mail” sent out these days seems to be from people selling the know-how to build cable descrambler boxes. For a fee of, say, $13.95, the list of items needed to build a cable box can ...

Q: I’ve always just assumed that cable descramblers are as illegal as tapping into your neighbor’s service. So what’s with all these pop-ups and spams hawking “completely legal” descramblers? Man, I ...

Usually when a cable television provider scrambles a signal it is rather difficult to descramble, if not impossible. However, I am supposed to receive channels 2-25 & 60-70 flawlessly (this is my ...