When the FBI raided the New Haven home of Robert R. Radil in 1994, it came up with a goldmine of information on his computer hard drive-the customer list for his illicit cable descrambler business.

Ever get one of these spams in the daily mix of get-rich schemes and porn offers? "Try this 100 percent legal cable TV descrambler FREE for 30 days!" Maryland reader John Jacobsen did and wondered: Is ...

NEW BEDFORD -- Two men in a Colony Cablevision van rolled up to the next house on the list, a sleepy single-family in the West End. In the home, they suspected, city residents, cable subscribers, were ...

imported legitimate analog cable converters, possibly from Taiwan. They then soldered a 50-cent computer chip into the boxes, which turned them into cable descramblers, Genna said. restitution charges ...

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 ...

When the FBI raided the New Haven, Conn., home of Robert R. Radil in 1994, it came up with a gold mine of information on his computer hard drive — the customer list for his illicit cable descrambler ...