I got a rare PM from an old friend today. If some of you recall about 2-3 months ago a guy I'd met on IRC related to Motorola Surfboard Modem hacking had made a thread on here about his plan to open shop and sell pre-fabbed hacked cable modems. I was one of his initial 3 test customers that agreed to work with him outside of escrow. I was also the one who recommended him vend his modems here/DNM markets.
Here's the thing I got my modem about 2 months ago and it works fabulously. As soon as I got on TC to ping him back about how well it was working for me he wasn't on which was unusual because he was in constant contact with me while he was working/testing my modem.
I hadn't seen him since! Weird... but I thought since I got my order no big deal at least I didn't get scammed.
Onto the review itself... The modem works like a charm. I hooked it up to my comcast connection which he tailored the settings to and it got on in about 30 seconds. I checked out the modem firmware @ 192.168.100.1 and it was running something called haxorware and it was set to a business tier config file something C01_BIZ_30.cm or something like that. And the MAC address was spoofed obviously to some modem on Comcast preconfigured for those speeds.
On a speed test I did 50Mbps down and 30Mbps up. Not fucking bad at all! The speeds practically melted my face when I went on my favorite private torrent tracker and was download @ 5 Megabytes per second and SEEDING @ 3 Megabytes per second. Fucking wow.
Anyway, he told me that he got 2 of 3 modems sent out and then his workshop where he modifies his modems got struck by lightning and most of his equipment got fried. In this alleged catastrophe he lost the encrypted PGP information for one his customers. He wanted me to reach out here and ask if that customer could come forward. You can PM me and I'll PM you back his email.
Namaste pham!
TL:DR Took a chance on a hacked modem. Ended up working flawlessly. Vendor dissappears. Gets in touch with me again.
EDIT: Apparently through further chatting with him after I posted this he lost two of his main computers that he had HDDs heavily encrypted. The limited amount of customer information he was saving (In PGP encrypted format) was lost. He lost his TorChat ID, PGP key ring, customer emails. Luckily he had only taken 3 preorders and 2 out of 3 were shipped. He found my information on reddit because he remembered my LSD reviews and searched for them apparently. Then PM'ed me on here.
EDIT 2: I found the guy with a little sleuthing that seems to be the customer who didn't get the modem. /u/pjewvszn from thread https://pay.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/1ypidf/hacked_cable_modem_dude_disappeard
If your seeing this dude PM me for the cable modem dudes email addy!
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