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 ...

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 ...

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 ...