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Super illegal, AND all ISPs have bandwidth accounting that will quickly spot the manipulation.

• throwaway2048 7y ago
  Yeah who would want to do such a thing on Hacker News
• driverdan 7y ago
  > Super illegal [citation needed] Also, what makes it super? And how does that compare to normal illegal?
  • lima 7y ago
    Heh - sorry for the hyberbole. At least in my country, Germany, fraudulent use of telecommunications services, public transport or paid events/facilities ("Erschleichen von Leistungen", § 265a StGB) is not just a civil matter, but also a criminal offence. If you got caught manipulating your modem to avoid paying for faster broadband, you would likely to get into trouble.
• hanniabu 7y ago
  What if you used the exploit to change someone else's modem speed? If you are the who's modem was modified, how could you prove this in court? It sounds like it'd be very difficult. However, if you can somehow prove this, then you can just alter your own and claim someone else did it externally and claim it's their own fault because they provided a device that was exploitable. Note, the premise of this comment is based off another commenter's claim that you can pull this off remotely and don't actually need to be on the local network.